Director Morgan Neville is steering clear of generative AI after ‘Roadrunner’ backlash

For a short moment while reading this article, I had assumed Neville had learned some kind of lesson, but then it concludes:

> “Carl Sagan in [Piece by Piece] says, ‘Pharrell’ and I was very clear to everybody that we were, with permission of his widow, going to make him say ‘Pharrell’ without using AI,” Neville said. “We actually experimented to construct the word from syllables [he actually said].”

Does anyone actually give a shit _how_ the words are made up? The problem is putting shit people didn’t say into documentaries. Who gives a shit whether you did it manually with audio editing or with generative AI, either way you’re putting words in someone else’s mouth.