The Brutalist director defends actors amid AI row
Brady Corbet says stars’ performances ‘completely their own’ after it emerges AI technology was used to edit their scenes spoken in Hungarian
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Brady Corbet has addressed the growing debate surrounding the use of AI technology in his acclaimed film The Brutalist.
The awards contender has faced backlash after movie editor Dávid Jancsó revealed in an interview that artificial intelligence was used to refine the performances of stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones.
Speaking to Red Shark News, Jancsó explained that Ukrainian software company Respeecher’s AI tools were employed to adjust Brody’s and Jones’ Hungarian dialogue, ensuring it sounded more authentic.
While the intention was to enhance the linguistic accuracy of the performances, the revelation has sparked an online uproar. Critics argue that any use of AI in filmmaking should disqualify the movie from awards consideration, calling into question the ethics of such technology in creative projects.
The controversy has put The Brutalist, which is nominated for Best Film at this year’s Baftas, at the centre of a broader industry discussion about the role of AI in filmmaking, with Corbet’s film now a flashpoint for heated debate.
Countering suggestion that technology was used to improve or change the actors’ performances, Corbet told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday: “Adrien and Felicity’s performances are completely their own. They worked for months with dialect coach Tanera Marshall to perfect their accents.
Brady Corbet, winner of the award for best director – motion picture for The Brutalist, and its star Adrien Brody
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“Innovative Respeecher technology was used in Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy. No English language was changed. This was a manual process, done by our sound team and Respeecher in post-production.
“The aim was to preserve the authenticity of Adrien and Felicity’s performances in another language, not to replace or alter them and done with the utmost respect for the craft.”
The Brutalist features much of its dialogue in Hungarian.
Jancsó shed light on the challenges of achieving linguistic authenticity with actors who were not native speakers in his interview with Red Shark News.
He said: “I am a native Hungarian speaker and I know that it is one of the most difficult languages to learn to pronounce. If you’re coming from the Anglo-Saxon world certain sounds can be particularly hard to grasp.”
Working within a tight budget of under $10 million, the filmmakers turned to Ukrainian AI startup Respeecher for help. The innovative technology was used to fine-tune the delivery, ensuring the dialogue resonated as accurately as possible.
The Brutalist director delivering his Golden Globes acceptance speech for best director
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Jancsó explained that both Brody and Jones recorded their own voices for the AI, while he contributed his own native Hungarian delivery as a model for the system.
“We were extremely cautious about preserving their performances,” Jancsó explained, noting that the adjustments were minimal, mainly involving the replacement of specific letters. He likened the process to traditional dialogue editing rather than a creative overhaul.
“You can do this in ProTools yourself, but we had so much dialogue in Hungarian that we really needed to speed up the process otherwise we’d still be in post.”
Commenting on the architectural designs seen in the film’s final scenes, Corbet clarified in his THR statement: “[The Brutalist production designer] Judy Becker and her team did not use AI to create or render any of the buildings. All images were hand-drawn by artists.
“To clarify, in the memorial video featured in the background of a shot, our editorial team created pictures intentionally designed to look like poor digital renderings circa 1980.”
Corbet concluded his statement: “The Brutalist is a film about human complexity, and every aspect of its creation was driven by human effort, creativity, and collaboration. We are incredibly proud of our team and what they’ve accomplished here.”
Critics have praised Brody and Jones for their compelling performances as Hungarian refugees who flee to the U.S. after World War II. Brody’s standout role earned him the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama, and he is now seen as a strong contender for this year’s Oscars.
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The X Games will experiment judging halfpipe runs this week in Aspen using artificial intelligence, the cutting-edge technology that could someday play a role in the way subjectively judged sports are scored.
Long a trendsetter in action sports, the X Games and its new CEO, freestyle skiing great Jeremy Bloom, teamed with Google founder Sergey Brin to build the technology.
Using Google Cloud tools including Vertex AI, Bloom thinks this experiment has potential to change the game on halfpipes, then maybe on slopestyle courses, skating rinks and anywhere a judge is used to score a contest.
“Part of subjective sports, we see it all over the place, is that even at their best, humans can get it wrong,” said Bloom, who was a freestyle skier at two Olympics while also playing college football at Colorado. “Sometimes getting it wrong has huge implications. What if we could give judges superpowers and they could see things they couldn't see with the human eye, and this technology could help inform them?”
The specter of a judging mistake lingers over every high-stakes contest, and even with its more laid-back vibe, snowboarding, which is now a fixture in the Olympic program, is no exception.
At the last Winter Games in Beijing, the sport narrowly avoided a potential scandal in the men's halfpipe final. Japan's Ayumu Hirano landed the most difficult trick in the sport — a triple cork — as part of a strong, top-to-bottom run, but was ranked behind another rider who didn't do the trick after two rounds.
Snowboarding experts were aghast on social media. Had Hirano not pulled off the trick again on his third round, his score from Round 2 wouldn't have been enough for the gold medal he eventually won.
In another episode, Canadian slopestyler Max Parrot acknowledged not grabbing his board on a run that earned him a gold medal, a key element that judges missed but that could be picked up on close review of the video.
The AI at the X Games this week won't have any impact on the official scoring, but will be a gauge of what's possible in the future. Bloom said thousands of hours of halfpipe footage, along with the judging criteria, have been loaded into a system that will be shown on the TV telecast and be made available to the live judges.
The AI will be programmed to watch haflpipe practice and predict the top three finishers. Then its powers will be used to judge and commentate on three different riders as they go down the halfpipe.
“It's early days, but the technology sort of blows your mind,” Bloom said. “It's the power of what it can do when you give it clear direction. It's pretty amazing what this thing can do.”
In snowboarding, judges look at elements like the height of the jumps, the difficulty of the tricks and how well they're executed. They ultimately deliver scores on a 100-point scale based on how runs stack up against each other.
It's a nuance unlike figure skating or gymnastics, where individual tricks have specific point values. Bloom says all that is being taken into account as they work through the experiment.
He does not envision a future with no human judges.
“I don't think this replaces the judges, Bloom said, but I think it gives them power to ensure objectivity.”
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