Fox News anchor and executive editor Bret Baier has the latest on fears over the'darker side' of artificial intelligence on'Special Report.' Generative Artificial Intelligence can create lifelike imaging and audio, which is likely why an increasing number of film studios are incorporating A.I. into special effects. It comes just two years after Hollywood's largest union went on strike, in part over the impact A.I. would bring. "Popular culture movies like The Terminator have created a very dark dystopian version of what this could look like," White House A.I. and Crypto Czar David Sacks said. "The version of the future of A.I. that I think is probably most accurate if you want to pop cultural references is Star Trek Enterprise. Think about the ship computer in that. It can perform tasks for you. But it doesn't have a will of its own, it doesn't' have a mind of its' own. It's there to help the crew, and it needs to be supervised by humans."

If you were on social media over the holiday weekend--and really, what better use of a holiday weekend is there--you might have noticed a controversy brewing around the use of artificial intelligence in The Brutalist, Brady Corbet's sprawling saga about a Jewish architect who escapes the Holocaust and immigrates to the U.S. to ply his trade. If you didn't happen to catch the initial backlash, good news: By Monday, Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline had all picked up the story, and by this morning the internet was awash in aggregations and explainers, all blossoming two days before the Oscar nominations are announced. The flap traced back to an article published by RedShark News on Jan. 11--an eternity ago in internet time--that actually praised the film's "subtle and sensitive" use of artificial intelligence. Editor Dávid Jancsó detailed how the production used a tool called Respeecher to enhance "certain sounds" in Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones' Hungarian dialogue. Jancsó, a native speaker, explained that Hungarian is "one of the most difficult languages to learn to pronounce," and even after working with a dialogue coach, there were still lingering inaccuracies.

The filmmakers behind The Brutalist, a likely Oscar contender currently being distributed by A24, used AI to alter actor's dialogue and create images used in the film's epilogue, the film's editor Dávid Jancsó shared in an interview with RedShark News. The epic drama follows a fictional Hungarian architect (as played by Adrien Brody) who struggles to make art under the fickle system of American capitalism (and the weirdos that run it). To make Brody and his costar Felicity Jones' Hungarian pronunciation as accurate as possible, Jancsó says the production used AI from a company called Respeecher to alter the actor's speech. Respeecher was able to adjust the actor's vocals to make them match a native Hungarian speaker's pronunciation, though Jancsó says the process didn't do anything you couldn't achieve with traditional dialogue editing. "You can do this in ProTools yourself, but we had so much dialogue in Hungarian that we really needed to speed up the process, otherwise we'd still be in post."

The use of artificial intelligence could become a ferocious battleground during movie awards season, as at least two major contenders were revealed to have used voice-cloning to enhance actors' performances. In an interview with moving-image tech publication Red Shark News, The Brutalist editor Dávid Jancsó said that, in an effort to create Hungarian dialogue so perfect "that not even locals will spot any difference", Jancsó fed lead actors Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones's voices into AI software, as well as his own. In the film, Brody plays Jewish-Hungarian architect László Tóth, who emigrates to the US after the second world war, and Jones is his wife Erzsébet. Jancsó, a Hungarian speaker, said that while Brody's mother was an émigré from Hungary in real life, "coaching" and re-recording via ADR (automated dialogue replacement) with both the original actors and stand-ins "just didn't work". Jancsó said he then employed an AI tool developed by Respeecher, a Ukraine-based company who were previously involved in the "cloning" of the voice of James Earl Jones for the TV series Obi-Wan Kenobi, to add individual sounds and letters to both Brody and Jones's Hungarian-language dialogue.

If anyone could make the Dark Side sound good, it was James Earl Jones. The actor, who died Monday at the age of 93, provided the voice for Darth Vader in more than a dozen Star Wars properties, from A New Hope to Star Tours. He made the Force sound ominous in a way that made it appealing. With his passing, it feels as though all the power and gravitas and respect he brought to the character is gone. A few years ago, when Jones provided a few lines of dialog as Vader for The Rise of Skywalker, he'd expressed interest in wrapping up his time as the Sith Lord, according to Vanity Fair.

For Ukraine's tech startups, the last two years have been anything but business as usual. Despite drone strikes and a battered war-time economy, cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa remain home to a thriving tech ecosystem. As the war grinds on, a number of Ukraine's entrepreneurs have been fighting their own battle with Russia. Yet their fight has not just been to preserve their country's territory - but also its identity. MailOnline spoke with the CEOs and founders of some of these startups to learn how they have been using technology to fight the war for Ukrainian culture.

Jimmy Stewart can now send you off to a blissful night's rest with a Calm bedtime story. The mindfulness app is known for its Sleep Stories, read by celebrities including Harry Styles and Idris Elba, to help users drift off to dreamland. To revive Stewart's iconic voice Calm has collaborated with AI company Respeecher. The new It's a Wonderful Sleep Story, which Calm has dubbed "a heartwarming new holiday tale," is now available for Premium subscribers. Stewart starred in several major films (including It's a Wonderful Life) and was known for his signature drawl and calming voice.

When a beloved actor or musician passes away, they always leave behind that lingering thought of what they might have been able to create if they'd only had a little more time. However, as John Lennon's posthumous chart success has shown, for the stars of the future, death doesn't need to be the final curtain call. From actors making ghostly returns to the screen or famous figures narrating the story of their own lives, AI is reviving more than just celebs' careers. But when stardom doesn't end with death, who gets the final say on a celebrity's legacy? Here, MailOnline reveals how these creepy technologies are bringing back your favourite figures from the past to perform again.

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has confirmed it used AI voice cloning software to reconstruct the voice of a deceased actor for its Phantom Liberty DLC. Actor Miłogost Reczek voiced the character Viktor Vektor in the Polish version of the game and would have been tapped to reprise the role for the DLC, which came out last month, but he died in 2021 before its production. The developer told Bloomberg it decided to go this route as a way to "pay tribute to his wonderful performance," and was given permission to do so by his family. Instead of replacing Reczek outright, CD Projekt Red worked with Respeecher, the Ukraine-based voice tech company known for deaging Mark Hamill's voice in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett to create a young Luke Skywalker. Another actor was hired to speak the new lines, and Respeecher's software reworked them into Reczek's voice, CD Projekt localization director Mikołaj Szwed told Bloomberg.

"Luke, I am your father" are five of the most famous words ever spoken on screen. When Darth Vader shattered Luke Skywalker's world in "The Empire Strikes Back," he sent shivers down the spines of audiences everywhere--in large part because of actor James Earl Jones' famous baritone. Now, Jones, 91, has announced he is hanging up the mask and retiring as the voice of one of the most infamous cinematic villains. But don't despair: Although Jones will no longer record new lines for Star Wars projects, the character--and Jones' voice--will live on thanks to artificial intelligence. As first reported by Vanity Fair, Respeecher, a Ukrainian voice synthesis company, will use a combination of archival recordings, voice acting and AI technology to continue bringing Darth Vader to the screen.