Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Got a story about AI? Rendering wants to hear from you: jkanter@deadline.com.
At first glance, documentaries and artificial intelligence are not natural bedfellows. The pursuit of truth through artifice would seem to defeat the object, and early experiments, like cloning Anthony Bourdain’s voice, were met with serious skepticism. But as AI has evolved, filmmakers have grown bolder in embracing the technology. So much so, there is a new frontier in the docs world: Using avatars to protect the identities of sensitive contributors.
The technique was put to good use in 2023’s Another Body, in which directors Sophie Compton and Reuben Hamlyn masked a college student fighting for justice after she was a victim of
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