Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
No Result
View All Result
Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
Home DramaAlert

Stephen Fry Shocked to Discover AI Replicated His Voice for Documentary

rmtsa by rmtsa
September 20, 2023
in DramaAlert
0
Stephen Fry Shocked to Discover AI Replicated His Voice for Documentary
74
SHARES
1.2k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


Stephen Fry played a short clip of his voice narrating a documentary before revealing he’d never recorded it — instead, AI replicated his voice after analyzing his audiobook recordings of the Harry Potter books.

This is at least in part why writers and actors are striking. Stephen Fry brought home the shocking and horrifying possibilities of AI to disrupt the industry when he played a snippet of his voice narrating a documentary — only it wasn’t him. Not really.

The actor played the clip during an appearance at the CogX Festival last week in London, as detailed by Variety. After the audience heard his unmistakable tone for a few moments, Fry told them, “I said not one word of that — it was a machine.”


Getty

Aaron Paul Says He Gets No Residuals from Breaking Bad on Netflix: ‘I Don’t Get a Piece’

View Story

You might also like

Saniyah Cheatham family doubts NYPD suicide claims

California Woman Flooded With Hundreds of Amazon Packages After Seller Lists Her Home as Return Address • Hollywood Unlocked

Donald Trump Praised by Native American Org. for Washington NFL Team Name Stance

“Yes, it shocked me,” he continued. “They used my reading of the seven volumes of the Harry Potter books, and from that dataset an AI of my voice was created, and it made that new narration.”

He went on to explain just how sophisticated AI technology has gotten in this area. It’s not just that they picked up his utterance of different words from throughout the thousands of pages he’d read and recorded.

“This is from a flexible artificial voice, where the words are modulated to fit the meaning of each sentence,” he explained. “It could therefore have me read anything from a call to storm Parliament to hard porn, all without my knowledge and without my permission.”

He noted that the recording he had played for them had, in fact, been done without his permission. In fact, it had been done without his knowledge. When he heard about it, he sent it to his agents both in the UK and US, “and they went ballistic — they had no idea such a thing was possible.”


ABC/Getty

Cheryl Burke on Controversial DWTS Adrian Peterson Casting, Says Show Shouldn’t Air Amid Strikes

View Story

Fry then shared a warning with the audience that he’d expressed to his agents about what this means. “This is audio,” he said of the AI documentary narration that mimicked his voice. “It won’t be long until deepfake videos are just as convincing.”

AI has, of course, been one of the hot-button issues for both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes that have halted nearly all productions in Hollywood. They’re after the usual issues with pay and residuals and the influx of streaming changing the landscape, but AI is definitely in the mix.

The strikes came around the same time ChatGPT got the whole world talking about the potential of AI for storytelling, even as it exposed its limits. But those are limits for today.

Add to that the growing proliferation of deepfakes — perhaps best exemplified by a series of viral videos superimposing Tom Cruise over someone else, and the growing penchant for de-aging actors and actresses in film and television, as well as AI background actors to eliminate/minimize the need for actual background workers — and it’s easy to see why actors big and small would be concerned.


Getty

Rosie O’Donnell’s Advice, Reaction to Drew Barrymore Announcing ‘Pause’ on Talk Show Return

View Story

Studios may see the benefits of using AI technology to tweak or alter a performance in edit, while actors are extremely concerned about their work being altered by computers. Sure, critics are still poking fun at the plastic, shiny look of the de-aged and digital composites, but again, those are today’s limits.

As Fry suggested, things will only continue to advance, and where will that leave writers and actors when they can be replaced by technology? The hope for the labor side with these strike negotiations is to get ahead of this technology before it gets out of control and jeopardizes the integrity of their work.

Certainly, nobody wants to wake up one day and find out they starred in or lent their voice to a project they’ve never heard of and maybe would never agree to be a part of. In the case of Stephen Fry, It’s already happening.



Source link

Tags: DISCOVERdocumentaryFryReplicatedShockedStephenVoice
Share30Tweet19
rmtsa

rmtsa

Recommended For You

Saniyah Cheatham family doubts NYPD suicide claims

by rmtsa
July 10, 2025
0
Saniyah Cheatham family doubts NYPD suicide claims

Source: Gary Hershorn / Getty If the police, especially the NYPD, are telling you a story, your best bet is second-guess everything they are saying, hire the best...

Read more

California Woman Flooded With Hundreds of Amazon Packages After Seller Lists Her Home as Return Address • Hollywood Unlocked

by rmtsa
July 10, 2025
0
California Woman Flooded With Hundreds of Amazon Packages After Seller Lists Her Home as Return Address • Hollywood Unlocked

Imagine not being able to park your car because your garage is flooded with packages you never even ordered. That’s the reality for one California woman, Kay, who...

Read more

Donald Trump Praised by Native American Org. for Washington NFL Team Name Stance

by rmtsa
July 10, 2025
0
Donald Trump Praised by Native American Org. for Washington NFL Team Name Stance

Donald Trump Native American Org. Praises Prez ... Appreciates D.C. NFL Team Name Stance Published July 10, 2025 12:30 AM PDT Donald Trump's firm stance on Washington's NFL...

Read more

These Volunteer Opportunities Offer Relief For Student Loans

by rmtsa
July 10, 2025
0
These Volunteer Opportunities Offer Relief For Student Loans

by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman July 9, 2025 Programs such as the Peace Corps and Americorps could offer some loan relief and even forgiveness. For those struggling with student loans,...

Read more

Jaume Collet-Serra Inks Overall Deal With Netflix

by rmtsa
July 10, 2025
0
Jaume Collet-Serra Inks Overall Deal With Netflix

Jaume Collet-Serra has signed a multiyear overall film deal with Netflix, the distributor of his hit 2024 action thriller Carry-On, starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman, sources have...

Read more
Next Post
Watch Trailer for the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – The Hollywood Reporter

Watch Trailer for the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – The Hollywood Reporter

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Browse by Category

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized

CATEGORIES

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized
No Result
View All Result

Recent News

  • Hottest Thirst Traps Of The Week, Vol. 103
  • Charlotte de Witte to Make Tomorrowland History with Two Mainstage Sets in One Day
  • Amazon’s Jake Gyllenhaal Sequel Movie Loses Guy Ritchie

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In