The use of artificial intelligence to “deepfake” Anthony Bourdain’s voice in Morgan Neville’s recently released documentary, “Roadrunner,” has received mixed reactions.
Some critics find artificially re-creating the late chef’s voice unethical, while others defend the documentary and the artistic freedom in telling a narrative.
Helen Rosner, author of The New Yorker’s July 15 piece on the documentary, for one, took to Twitter to express her shock after finding out that some of Bourdain’s lines did not actually use his voice.
“[Because] of Bourdain’s massive [voiceover] archive, he’s sort of ‘Roadrunner”s ghostly narrator. But there was one line I was amazed they had audio f…
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