For movies, the best thing to happen last week was documentarian Morgan Neville’s flip response to The New Yorker’s query about his having covertly used artificial intelligence to voice some of Anthony Bourdain’s lines in the film Roadrunner.“If you watch the film, other than that line you mentioned, you probably don’t know what the other lines are that were spoken by the A.
I., and you’re not going to know,” said Neville. “We can have a documentary-ethics panel about it later.”That answer—especially the sassy second sentence—provoked outrage among peers with a stricter view of authenticity in nonfiction movies.But it certainly cleared the air about a point that can’t be repeated too often, for the good of viewers and filmmakers alike.
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