Anthony Bourdain’s AI-Faked Voice in New Documentary Sparks Backlash

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Filmmaker Morgan Neville responded to criticism of his use of Anthony Bourdain's AI voice, 'It was a modern storytelling technique that I used in a few places where I thought it was important to make Tony’s words come alive.”

In the documentary, editors Eileen Meyer and Aaron Wickenden weave in narration by Bourdain pulled from audio clips, show outtakes, video interviews and audiobooks. However, when asked how he obtained some quotes from Bourdain in a, Neville tells writer Helen Rosner that he used artificial intelligence to create three quotes with Bourdain’s voice. “I created an AI model of his voice,” Neville says.

The narrator voice got performative and sing-songy in the “No Reservation” years. I checked, you know, with his widow and his literary executor, just to make sure people were cool with that. And they were like, Tony would have been cool with that. I wasn’t putting words into his mouth. I was just trying to make them come alive.

 

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Voice appropriation!

It sounds fraudulent and crass to me.

Nah, he’s just profiting off of tragedy

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