He lands on Peacock the second season of Ted, prequel to the two films with Mark Wahlberg (Ted, Ted 2) and always with Seth MacFarlane to director. The series has attracted the attention of the public and the critics not only for his comic qualities, but for the use of artificial intelligence-based deepfake, with the aim of impersonating Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States.
In a reality where even the film news of the moment puts, more and more, the AI in the spotlight (see the new purchase from Netflix of the startup AI conceived by Ben Affleck) should not surprise us the following: in an episode of the new season of Ted Bill Clinton travels over time, landing in America the 1990s in a donut shop and protesting for the service received. For the realization of this scene, we start from the body and, above all, from the voice of the same MacFarlane. The latter is known not only for bringing on the large and small screen the teddy bear over the lines of always, but for having doubled it. Don’t forget his voice in other characters created by him, like Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin and dog Brian of the famous I Griffin series.
In this regard, MacFarlane, very open to the philosophy/use of AI, as long as it does not damage human creativity, says: “I’ve been playing Bill Clinton since the first days of I Griffin. It is an interesting example of how artificial intelligence can be used as a tool without necessarily trampling the art that the rest of the industry is doing. We tried with prostheses, with traditional CGI, and everything seemed terrifying. So we said: “To hell, let’s try with artificial intelligence.” It worked. It was the only way to look like Bill Clinton.”.
One wonders, therefore, about the need to digitally recreate such an important character for one’s nation. Specially, considering that the series has always devoted great aesthetic care in the reproduction of America in the 1990s. Moreover, the doubts by the American public do not stop here, as we know the main concerns are the role of artificial intelligence in Hollywood, fear shared also by actors and actresses.
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