Director Brady Corbet is defending the use of AI in “The Brutalist” after facing heavy backlash for utilizing the controversial tech to alter Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones' Hungarian dialect and to create certain images in the film’s ending.

Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’s Hungarian dialogue in The Brutalist was enhanced using AI tools, according to the film’s editor Dávid Jancsó. “I am a native Hungarian speaker and I know that it is one of the most difficult languages to learn to pronounce,

A debate tore through film twitter when it was revealed that an A.I. studio did work on the film The Brutalist. The news came right as voters were preparing to cast their ballots for the Academy Awards.