A documentary film that reproduces the voice of the deceased in deepfake is accused of being 'unethical'
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Of the program presenter at the American chef Anthony Bourdain is, documentary film about a half a lifetime of until his death in 2018 ' Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain ' was published in the United States in 2021 July 16. In this movie, the words left by the deceased in the letter are reproduced as the voice of the person by deepfake technology, while on the net, 'I let you say what the person does not say by synthesizing with AI. It is unethical 'is being pointed out one after another.
“Roadrunner” Review: The Haunting Afterlife of Anthony Bourdain in a New Documentary | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-haunting-afterlife-of-anthony-bourdain
Anthony Bourdain Documentary'Roadrunner' Features AI Model of Late Chef's Voice – The Hollywood Reporter
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/anthony-bourdain-documentary-roadrunner-features-ai-model-of-late-chefs-voice-1234982850/
The Anthony Bourdain documentary and the ethics of audio deepfakes — Quartz
https://qz.com/2034784/the-anthony-bourdain-documentary-and-the-ethics-of-audio-deepfakes/
New Anthony Bourdain documentary deepfakes his voice --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/15/22578707/anthony-bourdain-documentary-deepfake-voice
'Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain' is a documentary film about the life and career of Anthony Bourdain, a well-known chef, writer and host of the show. The production team was directed by Morgan Neville .
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According to the news media The New Yorker, there is a scene in the play of this work where Bourdain's friend painter David Choe reads aloud the email sent from Bourdain. In this scene where Bourdain's anguish is read aloud, it seems that Mr. Cho's voice becomes Bourdain's voice from the middle.
In an interview with The New Yorker about how to create this scene, Neville said, 'In the film, I use a combination of Bodin's voices extracted from television, radio, podcasts, audiobooks, etc., but his voice. There was no recorded audiobook in the three scenes that needed, so I asked a software company to provide 12 hours of recorded data to create an AI model of his voice. ' He revealed that he used the voice synthesized by AI.
If you play the video below, you can see the trailer movie of 'Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain' that contains the voice of Bourdain synthesized by AI. According to the IT news site The Verge, the phrase 'and I am successful.' In the scene 1 minute and 30 seconds after the start of playback is especially synthetic voice. It's an easy-to-understand part.
ROADRUNNER: A Film About Anthony Bourdain --Official Trailer [HD] --In Theaters July 16 --YouTube
In an interview with GQ, a men's magazine, Neville also said, 'Just in case, I checked with Bourdain's widow and his author, and he said,'Tony (Bourdain) will surely accept it.'' I said . However, the Hollywood Reporter, which deals with movie-related news, reports that Director Neville's remark that Bourdain's words were reproduced in synthetic voice has been the subject of intense debate on social media.
Bourdain's ex-wife, Ottavia Busia Bourdain, testified on Twitter: 'I wasn't the one who said'Tony accepts it.''
I certainly was NOT the one who said Tony would have been cool with that. Https://t.co/CypDvc1sBP
— Ottavia (@OttaviaBourdain) July 16, 2021
The tweet said, 'Because the voice that Bourdain actually spoke has been used for hours, there's no need to AI his voice. Instead, to the people he loved most Isn't it more true to have the words read aloud? '
Which so many hours of clips available of things he actually said there seems no reason to create an AI version of his voice. Wouldn't it be more poetic to have the people who loved him the most read his words instead?
— David Owen (@MisplacedMan) July 17, 2021
Replyes such as 'It is ethical to do what the person himself said with AI what he did not say'.
Seems unethical they used AI, it's deceptive. Unethical they claim you said something you didn't say. They could have found a way to include statements if they really tried without the deception. He seemed like an authentic person, I don't think he would have been cool with it.
— Suze (@ MsSuzieQ3) July 16, 2021
Meredith Broussard, a professor of journalism at New York University, said, 'When new technologies like deepfake technology are used in journalism, they pose a big ethical dilemma. More if this kind of technology is used in fiction. It may be tolerated, but the documentary is considered genuine, so it's easy to feel fooled. '
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