The use of artificial intelligence in The Brutalist created an uproar

February getting its theatrical premiere at the end The Brutalist – the movie is created an uproar on the use of artificial intelligence tools.

The uproar started after the film’s editor David Jancsó told Red Shark News website about the use of artificial intelligence in production. In the post-production of the film, the Hungarian dialogues of the lead actors were corrected.

The interview, which was published in early January, first started a discussion on social media.

With increased publicity, the film’s director Brady Corbet sent on Monday by film media Deadlinelle statement clarifying the use of artificial intelligence. Corbet said that the cutter’s own speech was used in the dubbing.

Brady Corbet directed the film with a relatively small budget of ten million dollars and it has been hailed as the winner of the film award season of the beginning of the year. At the beginning of January, the film received three Golden Globe awards. The film has been shown at festivals around the world at the end of 2024.

The Brutalist tells about the Hungarian-Jewish architect László Toth (Adrien Brody), who after World War II, after surviving the Holocaust, moves to the United States to rebuild his life. It also involves building a new connection with wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones). The film was shot in and around Budapest

Editor Dávid Jancsó said in the interview that started the uproar that in the post-production of the film, they ended up correcting Brody and Jones’ Hungarian exchanges with the help of an artificial intelligence program. The goal was to make them so fluent that even a native Hungarian speaker wouldn’t notice the difference.

First, traditional dubbing was tried, but the results were not good enough. Jancsó, who speaks Hungarian as his mother tongue, ended up recording his own speech as a model for the Respeecher artificial intelligence program.

“Much of their Hungarian dialogue includes my speech. We took care to preserve their interpretation. It’s mostly about fixing some letters here and there. This can also be done by hand [äänenkäsittelyohjelma] in ProTools, but there was so much Hungarian dialogue that we had to speed up the process – otherwise post-production would still be in progress,” Jancsó told Red Shark Media.

This one in addition, at the end of the film, an episode set in 1980 is shown, in which models of the architect’s drawings and completed buildings were generated with the help of artificial intelligence. However, they were drawn based on the models for the final film by hand, says director Brady Corbet.

In his statement, he emphasized the use of artificial intelligence only as tools for the creative process: “The Brutalist tells about the multifacetedness of humanity, and it was created in all aspects by the initiative of people, by the power of creativity and cooperation,” he wrote.

The surgeon Dávid Jancsó also emphasized the same in his interview:

“There is no AI content in the film that hasn’t been done before. It just speeds up the process significantly. We use artificial intelligence to create small details that we didn’t have time or money to film,” Jancsó said.

Artificial intelligence tools usage is very controversial in the creative fields, as this case shows.

In the same way, in March 2024 was born saliva Late Night with the Devil – from the horror film, which shows three still images created by artificial intelligence.

It’s not so much about the end result made possible by artificial intelligence as it is about the work process. As Late Night with the Devilin in connection with the journalist Matt Beautiful stated, the use of artificial intelligence can start with small details, but there is a risk of eventually taking work away from entire professions such as graphic artists.

Secondly film director and screenwriter Paul Schrader has published in recent days on Facebook several articles praising artificial intelligence. Schrader has been making such 1970s and 1980s blockbusters as Cabby, American Gigolo and Like a raging bull.

Schrader writes that he is amazed by the quality of AI tools. For example, he has asked artificial intelligence to write an idea for a Paul Schrader film and has continued to experiment with the names of other directors.

“Every idea generated by Chat GPT (within a few seconds) was good. And original. And finished. Why should screenwriters spend months searching for a good idea when artificial intelligence can produce one in seconds?” Schrader wrote on Friday, January 17th.

This writing was also created an avalanche of objections especially on social media.