The Oscars are tonight, and as is often the case, there's a subplot of controversy.

This year, it's over the use of artificial intelligence and the production of a number of

nominated films, some of them in the Best Picture category.

Katie Rich is the awards editor at the Ancler, which covers the entertainment industry.

She's also the host of the podcast, Prest junkie. So, Katie, what are we

talking about here? What sorts of things are in nominated films that use AI? We're talking about

so many different things, which is what makes it such a complicated issue. In the case of some of

this year's Oscar nominees, you've got two films, The Brutalist and Amelia Perez, which used

a technology called Reese Beecher

to alter the way that the actor's voices sounded with the actor's permission.

You've also got in The Complete Unknown.

They use a different AI tool to make a stunt double's face look more like the star, Timothy

Chalame.

So they're all kind of small, subtle things, the kind of visual effects tweaks that we've seen

in movies for decades and decades.

And now that they're using artificial intelligence to do them, that's where some of the

discomfort can come in and make it really hard to understand exactly how these tools are being

used. You mentioned the brutalist. The editor said he used this technique to improve the

Hungarian accents of some of the characters. This is a movie about a man who immigrates

from Hungary to the United

States. He says that nothing, as you said, nothing was done that hasn't been done for years.

It's only faster and cheaper this way. So what's the argument here? I mean, I think it's that

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