- Netflix’s American Murder: Gabby Petito has disturbed some people to use an AI-generated voice to tell Petito’s journal posts.
- Despite the permission of Petito’s family, critics claim that the AI voice raises ethical concerns.
- This is not the first occurrence of such a debate and it is likely to continue to happen when the technology improves.
Netflix’s latest Docus series for genuine crime, American Murder: Gabby PetitoHas stirred a heated debate on how to insert AI to emulate the voices of people who are dead. The filmmakers employed AI to recreate Petito’s voice and get it to tell excerpts from her personal writings, which has reportedly made many viewers feel uncomfortable and raised ethical concerns about using AI to voice to the deceased.
The three-part series chronizes the murder in 2021 on 22-year-old Petito in the hands of her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. It brings together her last months through interviews, personal videos and social media posts that evoke how the tragedy happened in real time on the Internet. True criminal Aficionados Dissecated Famously Each Frame of Petito’s Travel -Vlogs before the authorities found her remains in Wyoming.
At the beginning of the series, a disclaimer is shown: “Gabby’s journal posts and text messages are brought to life in this series in her own voice using voice recreation technology.” This means that the voice that tells parts of the documentary is actually not petitos, but a synthetic recreation made with an AI model. Netflix has said the filmmakers received permission from Petito’s family to do so. It has not prevented some people from vocalizing how creepy the AI-generated voice feels. Social media content creators have gathered hundreds of thousands of views discussing it.
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This is not the first controversy over AI-generated votes. ROADRUNNER: A movie about Anthony Bourdain Faced with similar criticism when its director revealed that parts of the documentary contained AI-generated tale of Bourdain’s own words. This film did not indicate which bits were told by AI or by Bourdain, which made many feel that the technique was misleading.
Filmmaker Michael Gasparro defended the decision in an interview with US Weekly and said the team would tell the story as much “through Gabby’s voice as possible.” They had access to a wealth of her journals, notes and online posts and thought that AI narrative would bring them to life in a more powerful way. “At the end of the day it’s her story.”
Technology has always shaped the way we tell stories, but AI presents a new challenge, especially when it comes to commemorating people who can no longer speak for themselves. Robert Downey Jr. Has promised that AI will never repeat him on screen while James Earl Jones secured an agreement with Disney before he died, giving them the opportunity to use his voice for Darth Vader in certain circumstances.
Meanwhile, Elevenlab’s ink has appointed the goods of James Dean, Burt Reynolds, Judy Garland and Sir Laurence Olivier to let it add AI versions of their voices to the reader. As Deepfake technology and voice cloning become more sophisticated, filmmakers and media companies have to count on how (and if) these tools should be used to tell stories in real life.
