And the Oscar goes to the Faceless Artificial Neural Network.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.

The 95th Academy Awards this Sunday are sure to feature plenty of glitz and glam, awkwardly

cut-off speeches and artificial intelligence.

The technology is becoming a bigger and bigger part of filmmaking in ways not everyone is

thrilled about.

It's something Josh Glick wrote about recently for Wired.

He's a visiting associate professor of film and electronic arts at Bard College, and

he argues AI may not be the villain some in Hollywood imagine it to be.

AI is part of the toolbox of animators, VFX supervisors, computational artists, digital

faces, imagery of crowds for large battle scenes, things like that.

And then also, even for the realm of documentary, there are some documentaries using these tools

for particular ends.

So a film like Welcome to Chechnya uses deep fake technology to essentially provide

a kind of protection for the vulnerable on-screen subjects in the film.

And a recent Andy Warhol documentary also uses these tools to create a kind of synthetic

voice of Andy Warhol to great effect.

And for those who have concerns about where this could be going, what are kind of the

basis of those concerns?

I mean, certainly the idea that this technology will just get so good that it will replace all

kinds of creative labor, right?

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