- Netflix American murder: Gabby Petito has bothered some people for using a voice generated by AI to narrate the entries of the Petito newspaper.
- Despite the permission of Petito's family, critics argue that the voice of ia raises ethical concerns.
- This is not the first occurrence of such debate, and it will probably continue to happen as technology improves.
The latest Docuseries of Netflix crimes, American murder: Gabby PetitoHe has caused a heated debate on how to deploy AI to imitate the voices of the people who have died. The filmmakers used AI to recreate Petito's voice and make the extracts of their personal writings narrate, which, according to the reports, has made many spectators feel uncomfortable and expressed ethical concerns about the use of AI to give voice to the deceased.
The three -part series tells the 2021 murder of Petito, 22, at the hands of his fiance, Brian Laundrie. Gathering their last months through interviews, personal videos and publications on social networks, evoking how the real -time tragedy occurred on the Internet. The true crime fans dissected each picture of Petito's travel vlogs before the authorities found their remains in Wyoming.
At the beginning of the series, a disclaimer appears: “Gabby's tickets and text messages come alive in this series in their own voice, using voice recreation technology.” That means that the voice that narrates parts of the documentary is not really that of Petito, but a synthetic recreation made with an AI model. Netflix has said that the filmmakers received permission from Petito's family to do so. That has not prevented some people from vocalizing how mysterious the voice generated by Ia is felt. The creators of social networks content have accumulated hundreds of thousands of points of view that discuss it.
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This is not the first controversy about the voices generated by AI. Roadrunner: A movie about Anthony Bourdain He faced a similar criticism when his director revealed that parts of the documentary presented a narrative generated by AI of Bourdain's own words. That film did not indicate which bits were narrated by AI or Bourdain, which led many to feel that the technique was misleading.
The filmmaker Michael Gasparro defended the decision in an interview with Us Weekly, saying that the team wanted to tell the story both “through Gabby's voice.” They had access to a richness of their magazines, notes and online publications and thought that the narration of the life would give them life in a more powerful way. “At the end of the day, it is its story.”
Technology has always shaped the way we tell stories, but AI presents a new challenge, especially when it comes to commemorating people who can no longer speak for themselves. Robert Downey Jr. has promised that AI will never replicate him on the screen, while James Earl Jones secured an agreement with Disney before death, allowing them to use their voice for Darth Vader in certain circumstances.
Meanwhile, Elevenlabs has signed agreements with the farms of James Dean, Burt Reynolds, Judy Garland and Sir Laurence Olivier to let it add versions of AI of their voices to its application of reader. As Deepfake technology and voice cloning become more sophisticated, filmmakers and media companies will have to consider how (and if) these tools should be used to tell real life stories.
