https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/newen-artificial-intelligence-ai-french-soaps-producers-crew-1235760713/

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The company, which is owned by TF1, has also been using AI on some of France’s best known daily soaps, “Demain nous appartient” and “Plus belle la vie,” which are both produced by Newen Studios labels. The company created an in-house AI tool called Cinetwork, which can process scripts and generates a database for actors and key crew. “These series involve a lot of production constraints and these tools are saving us tremendous time by analyzing the scripts and creating filming schedules based on the availability of actors,” Carpentier says. Though some crew members resisted the idea of being assisted by an AI tool, she says they ultimately realized it freed up some time for them to do more work on the creative aspect of their respective jobs.

“At first everyone was scared,” Carpentier says. “When we told the costume designer that ‘instead of spending the whole day dissecting the script to see which actor is where and with whom, there is a new tool that’s going to do it for you,’ her first reaction was ‘I’m going to lose a day of work!” But very quickly, Carpentier says, “She understood that it gave her so much more time to work on the artistic and focus on things she enjoyed doing.”

Carpentier says these tools have also helped producers working around the clock on soaps to deliver episodes. “The idea is not to have AI write scripts, but rather use it to help writers working on these daily shows to stop doing boring things, like doing charts with the filiation bonds between 40 characters to make sure they don’t have them sleep with their relatives,” she says. “On these shows where everyone has slept with everyone, it’s hard to keep track of.” For actors, AI has also helped by delivering scripts digitally, updating them live and preparing them for each part rather than giving the whole script to every actors.

 

This sounds like a great use of AI. Y&R, with no overnight crew, could absolutely use something like this so they could put up a courthouse or hospital set and film scenes out of order in advance.

 

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Carpentier says Newen Studios has also occasionally tapped into deepfakes. The banner used it on “Plus belle la vie,” when an actor tested positive for COVID during the pandemic. Newen was able to use deepfake technology to clone the face of the actor from two scenes and put it on another actor, who was paid for her work on the series. “If we hadn’t been able to use deepfake technology we would have had to stop filming for two weeks or replace the actor,” Carpentier says.

 

Now that's a little weird, but it sounds like they did it ethically (they even hired the temp actor for another role). Didn't GH do something like this to insert Laura Wright into a Carly flashback?

That's exactly what I would do with flasbacks.

I can't believe these Californian shows aren't benefitting from AI (as far as we know) while a French soap is.

 

They are using AI? Now I get why TF1 bought Plus Belle La Vie from Channel 3… I see, I see.

But that’s a great help to produce such long serials 

On 10/19/2023 at 5:49 PM, BoldRestless said:

 

This sounds like a great use of AI. Y&R, with no overnight crew, could absolutely use something like this so they could put up a courthouse or hospital set and film scenes out of order in advance.

 

 

Now that's a little weird, but it sounds like they did it ethically (they even hired the temp actor for another role). Didn't GH do something like this to insert Laura Wright into a Carly flashback?

With Cole returning, Y&R could do something similar with Amelia Heinle as Victoria. Ethically, of course. It would also depend on whether the Net Code contract allows for something like this since it is different from the TV/theatrical one that was just agreed upon (pending ratification by members) by SAG and directly includes things related to AI.

1 hour ago, Errol said:

With Cole returning, Y&R could do something similar with Amelia Heinle as Victoria. Ethically, of course. It would also depend on whether the Net Code contract allows for something like this since it is different from the TV/theatrical one that was just agreed upon (pending ratification by members) by SAG and directly includes things related to AI.

I know we have a "Latest" section on the right now, but isn't this a spoiler?

1 hour ago, Aback said:

I know we have a "Latest" section on the right now, but isn't this a spoiler?

Technically speaking, yes, you are correct. That is a spoiler.

However, I personally do not consider casting announcements as a "spoiler," specifically when the news is revealed by the show itself and plastered across several websites and publications, including mainstream outlets. I did not intend to reveal anything when I posted, but what I said fit into the context of this post, especially in reference to AI use and the General Hospital mention of Laura Wright being inserted into a flashback. My apologies if my post spoiled anything for anyone who reads this thread.