{"id":411608,"date":"2026-02-06T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411608\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:05:11","slug":"why-darren-aronofsky-thought-an-ai-generated-historical-docudrama-was-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411608\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not all AI<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to note that On This Day\u2026 1776\u00a0is not fully crafted by AI. The script, for instance, was written by a team of writers overseen by Aronofsky\u2019s longtime writing partners Ari Handel and Lucas Sussman, as noted by The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. That makes criticisms like the Guardian\u2019s of \u201cChatGPT-sounding sloganeering\u201d in the first episodes both somewhat misplaced and hilariously harsh.<\/p>\n

Our production source says the project was always conceived as a human-written effort and that the team behind it had long been planning and researching how to tell this kind of story. \u201cI don\u2019t think [they] even needed that kind of help or wanted that kind of [AI-powered writing] help,\u201d they said. \u201cWe\u2019ve all experimented with [AI-powered] writing and the chatbots out there, and you know what kind of quality you get out of that.\u201d<\/p>\n


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What you see here is not a real human actor, but his lines were written and voiced by humans.<\/p>\n

What you see here is not a real human actor, but his lines were written and voiced by humans.<\/p>\n

Credit:<\/p>\n

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Primordial Soup<\/p>\n

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The producers also go out of their way to note that all the dialogue in the series is recorded directly by Screen Actors Guild voice actors, not by AI facsimiles. While recently negotiated union rules<\/a> might have something to do with that, our production source also said the AI-generated voices the team used for temp tracks were noticeably artificial and not ready for a professional production.<\/p>\n

Humans are also directly responsible for the music, editing, sound mixing, visual effects, and color correction for the project, according to our source. The only place the \u201cAI-powered tools\u201d come into play is in the video itself, which is crafted with what the announcement calls a \u201ccombination of traditional filmmaking tools and emerging AI capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

In practice, our source says, that means humans create storyboards, find visual references for locations and characters, and set up how they want shots to look. That information, along with the script, gets fed into an AI video generator that creates individual shots one at a time, to be stitched together and cleaned up by humans in traditional post-production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not all AI It\u2019s important to note that On This Day\u2026 1776\u00a0is not fully crafted by AI. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-411608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}