A deepfake audio + video with mask of the mayor of ethekwini was used to encourage people to continue looting during recent riots in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It’s scary.
Do you have a source? That's wild if true.
Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions
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His widow did not provide consent [1]. [1] https://twitter.com/OttaviaBourdain/status/14158894550057164...
She's not his widow, she's his estranged ex-wife. I should hope people's ex-wives don't get authority over their lives later (unless it's related to kids/shared-assets/etc). The family giving consent is way more relevant.
> She's not his widow, she's his estranged ex-wife.
That's incorrect. They were still married when he died and most of Bourdain's estate was left to their daughter with Ottavia overseeing it. "The family," in this case, is Ottavia and Ariadne Bourdain.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/07/06/anthon...
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Any of those are fine - with disclosure. It seems pretty clear that in this case, they were less than transparent. > “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,” Neville told the reviewer, Helen Rosner. “We can have a documentary-ethics panel about it later.” ...or we can have it sooner, on Twi…
Call me cynical, but a documentary needs publicity to be successful. It seems to me this ethical dilemma gives just about the right amount of outrage for people to pay attention without it overly hurting the film maker's reputation. Perhaps we'll see a mea culpa later on, where he will say he misjudged the amount of outrage, which is not a real apology, so lots of commenters will jump on that thereby providing even m…
I just don't like how people will go to any length just for "publicity".
Creating an outrage for some publicity of a documentary just doesn't sit right with me. Yes, it is an effective step or publicity stunt, but how does people don't have that inner voice? (I don't know what to call it) that tells them that this isn't what they should be doing without proper consent of the family members and without any disclosure over what is real and what isn't.
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Call me cynical, but a documentary needs publicity to be successful. It seems to me this ethical dilemma gives just about the right amount of outrage for people to pay attention without it overly hurting the film maker's reputation. Perhaps we'll see a mea culpa later on, where he will say he misjudged the amount of outrage, which is not a real apology, so lots of commenters will jump on that thereby providing even m…
I just don't like how people will go to any length just for "publicity". Creating an outrage for some publicity of a documentary just doesn't sit right with me. Yes, it is an effective step or publicity stunt, but how does people don't have that inner voice? (I don't know what to call it) that tells them that this isn't what they should be doing without proper consent of the family members and without any disclosure…
> I don't know what to call it
A conscience.
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#177One voice I would love to have historically preserved is the iconic Morgan Freeman. His narration of the documentary March of the Penguins really hit the mark for me.
James Earl Jones and David Attenborough too
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Time doesn't matter as much as what is said. Fake Anthony Bourdain voice reading something he wrote seems fine to me, especially in the context of, say, a documentary. John Lennon's voice doing an ad for Vox amps seems in poor taste.
>John Lennon's voice doing an ad for Vox amps seems in poor taste. the Bourdain documentary we're talking about was created in order to generate profit; it has box-office showings and advertisement campaigns. A documentary is nice , but I fail to see how it's less of a product than Vox amplifiers, aside from some shallow altruism like "We're spreading the ideas of Bourdain", which could be done entirely without a pro…
I don’t understand, are you saying documentaries should be made to generate a loss? Do you think the same documentary would be better if it didn’t have advertising or box-office showings? I really don’t understand the logic here at all! Please explain rather than downvote like in the other comment where I ask about this.
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>Out of all the celebrities, Bourdain would have viscerally despised this. I would just like to point out the irony in this comment. You're speaking on behalf of a dead person in objection to someone else speaking on behalf of that person. We can debate the ethics of this whole thing without trying to lay claim to what Bourdain would have thought.
The comment also includes examples of his stated beliefs that allow us to postulate somewhat closely.
And that's how the christian church was founded.
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Ofter you see what you want to see in the world. As much as I adore Bourdain, I have to admit he was undoubtably jaded and there were trips where that colored everything. For many, depression comes in waves and lasts for periods of time. He showed a lot of the good and bad in these places, but everywhere has a bit of both.
Bourdain put out an incredible body of work overcoming a lot of lifelong issues and I still love his show. Its just recently seeing someone like Rick Stein in the Mediterranean I realized its completely possible to do an area justice while also highlighting its best features. I feel like Anthony Bourdain with his rebel image would worry about being seen as a sellout or too bourgeois if he went to a fancy restaurant i…
He did go to some really fancy places in some episodes, the kind with one-of-a-kind $300 appetizers and multi-thousand dollar wines with their own climate-controlled storage facility.
But he also went to Waffle House and enjoyed it. And hiked through the jungle to eat and drink (mostly drink) at a local festival and sleep in a hallway with the rest of the locals.
That was what really impressed a lot of us - he seemed to get along with everyone and to value and accept their differences. The food often seemed to be largely an excuse to explore and show that message.