Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist has sparked backlash on social media after its editor admitted to using AI in the film. In an interview with Red Shark News, editor Dávid Jancsó revealed that AI tools from Respeecher.

“I am a native Hungarian speaker and I know that it is one of the most difficult languages to learn to pronounce,” Jancsó told Red Shark. “It’s an extremely unique language. We coached [Brody and Jones] and they did a fabulous job but we also wanted to perfect it so that not even locals will spot any difference.”

Jancsó explained that certain words are harder to pronounce, and how they tried using ADR to solve this issue, but it just did not work, so they “looked for other options of how to enhance it.”

Brody and Jones recorded their voices into the AI software, while Jancsó said he also fed in his voice to “finesse the tricky dialect.”

Jancsó added, “Most of their Hungarian dialogue has a part of me talking in there. We were very careful about keeping their performances. It’s mainly just replacing letters here and there.

He continues by revealing that generative AI was used in the film’s final sequence to create “a series of architectural drawings and finished buildings in the style of the fictional architect.”

Jancsó agrees that the subject of AI is “controversial,” but that “we should be having a very open discussion about what tools AI can provide us with.”

“There’s nothing in the film using AI that hasn’t been done before. It just makes the process a lot faster. We use AI to create these tiny little details that we didn’t have the money or the time to shoot.”

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