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I don't get why this is controversial. Documentaries constantly have someone reading a written document while imitating the voice of the author, and none of the
by causality0 5y ago
I don't get why this is controversial. Documentaries constantly have someone reading a written document while imitating the voice of the author, and none of them come out and say "This is not the actual voice of Abraham Lincoln". Why is having a computer imitate someone's voice different from having a person do it?
- reaperducer 5y agoBecause Lincoln has been dead for 172 years, and lived before audio recording, so no one who could fog a mirror would think that it was his voice. Bourdain didn't die that long ago, and made many recordings. It certainly is confusing.
- manquer 5y agoIs the issue, imitation without consent or that viewers are not informed correctly? I thought that given is ex-wife had not said okay and given Bourdain's past actions he may not have agreed with something like this using this technique was a poor choice, not necessarily that viewers are shown generated instead of recorded content
- usefulcat 5y agoIt's pretty obvious why you will never hear any recordings of Lincoln's voice. In comparison, it most certainly could be Bourdain's voice here so it's not at all obvious that it isn't.