The Brutalist director Brady Corbet clarified how AI tools were used on the film during postproduction after social media outrage about the practice spread widely over the weekend. In a statement provided to Gold Derby,

The A24 film is under fire after editor Dávid Jancsó revealed an AI tool was used to perfect the actors' Hungarian dialect.

Brady Corbet responds to 'The Brutalist' AI controversy in a statement clarifying it was only used for Hungarian dialogue editing.

EXCLUSIVE: Following news that the 3x Golden Globe winning movie The Brutalist used AI in post to smooth the Hungarian accents of its stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones as well as that of its cast,

Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” sparked controversy over the weekend after it became more widely known that AI was used during postproduction for enhancing stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ Hungarian language dialogue.

Oscars best picture frontrunner "The Brutalist" used AI to improve Adrien Brody's accent. Director Brady Corbet responded to the backlash.

That dialogue, it turns out, may have been supplemented by an AI speech tool.  Jancsó is a native Hungarian speaker; he knows how difficult the language is to replicate. That’s true even for Brody, whose mother is in fact a Hungarian refugee.

In parallel, there is another trend developing: full disclosure that AI has not been used in a film's production. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are the directors of the recent Hugh Grant psychological horror, Heretic. They decided to put a statement in the film's credits:“No generative AI was used in the making of this film”.

Director Brady Corbet is defending the use of AI in “The Brutalist” after facing heavy backlash for utilizing the controversial tech to alter Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones' Hungarian dialect and to create certain images in the film’s ending.

The Brutalist used AI to tweak the Hungarian dialogue of its lead stars, Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones, while the Emilia Perez team used it to enhance vocal range.

The technology can deceive so easily that public confidence in generative AI is only possible with full disclosure.