Brady Corbet's "The Beast" is preparing to become one of the frontrunners for awards season, sparking a backlash on social media after its editor acknowledged the use of artificial intelligence in the film.

In an interview with technology magazine Red Shark News, editor Dávid Jancsó revealed that in order to enhance the authenticity of the Hungarian dialogue between stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones, Ukrainian Artificial intelligence tool from software company Respeecher.

“My native language is Hungarian, and I know it’s one of the hardest languages ​​to learn to pronounce,” Janso told Red Shark. "It's an extremely unique language. We coached (Brody and Jones) and they did a great job, but we also wanted to perfect it so even locals wouldn't notice any difference."

Jansso said certain words were particularly difficult to say, so the filmmakers "first tried to work on those harder elements with the actors" to overcome that issue. "Then we tried with other actors to completely solve their problem, but that didn't work. So we looked at other options to enhance it."

Brody and Jones fed their voices into the AI ​​software, and Jansso said he also fed his own voice to "deftly handle tricky dialects."

“Most of their Hungarian dialogue has a part of me speaking in it,” he added. "We were very careful to keep them performing. It was mostly just replacing letters here and there."

Jancsó also revealed that generative AI was used in The Brutalist's final sequence to create "a series of architectural drawings and finished buildings" in the style of Brody's character László Tóth.

Although Jansso described the interpretation and limited use of artificial intelligence, the news that The Fauves — which was praised for its carefully crafted cinematic style — deployed the tool during production was met with criticism, with many taking to social media The decision to attack was carried out in the media.

One user suggested that AMPAS decided to disqualify Hans Zimmer's Dune: Part 2 score from an Oscar because it used musical elements from the first Dune, but allowed The Brutalist to pass despite having some dialogue Artificial intelligence is used in but shows inconsistencies. Another said it was a "shame" to use AI "to avoid paying visual artists for their work" and to manipulate actors' accents, which they said was "a fundamental aspect of acting". type Focus Features and Jancsó have been contacted for comment.

In the interview, Jansso acknowledged that talking about artificial intelligence is "controversial," but said it shouldn't be.

“We should have a very open discussion about what tools AI can give us,” he said. "There's nothing in this movie that hasn't been done before using AI. It just makes the process faster. We used AI to create these tiny details that we didn't have the money or time to shoot."