Anthony Bourdain's documentary 'Roadrunner' sparks a strange ethics debate
, Bourdain narrates his own story from beyond the grave, as the film utilizes clips of Bourdain’s voice from television and podcasts.
Some moments in the film, however, contain line readings that were never uttered by Bourdain at all - they are the product of artificial intelligence, trained to mimic Bourdain, having soaked in “about a dozen hours of recordings,” seamlessly blended in with Bourdain’s real narration. highlights a clip of the AI reading one of Bourdain’s emails, sent to a friend, in which he admits to feeling unhappy, despite his overwhelming success and fame.
“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 AI, and you’re not going to know. We can have a documentary-ethics panel about it later.” The piece sparked a visceral reaction on Twitter, as users recoiled at the idea of Bourdain’s voice being digitally recreated to narrate his private correspondence to the public.
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