Prime Video uses AI to dub Sylvester Stallone and the result doesn't work

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The more artificial intelligence develops, the more it shakes up the film and television industry and raises many ethical questions… especially when a production decides to reconstruct the voice of a deceased actor for a film.

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This is the case ofArmoran upcoming feature film on Prime Video for which the company ElevenLabs recreated with the help of artificial intelligence the voice of the late Alain Dorval, illustrious voice actor for Sylverster Stallone in the French version.

A controversial trailer

A trailer for the film Armor appeared on the web a few days ago, and Internet users quickly jumped on board when they realized that the dubbing of “Sly” for this film reproduces the voice of Alain Dorval with an AI.

On Xa publication from ElevenLabs, since deleted, explains that the start-up collaborated with the production company Lumiere Ventures and the family of Alain Dorval to develop this dubbing.

A now deleted post tells us about AI dubbing tests to replace the voice of the late Alain Dorval 🥺 What do you think of this decision? 😔 pic.twitter.com/KyYIkwENpZ

— Voix Ouf AlloCiné (@VoixOuf) January 11, 2025

However, if Alain Dorval's daughter, Minister Aurore Bergé, had indeed agreed to “a trial,” she then declared on X (in a post also since deleted) that she had not been consulted before the broadcast of this trailer when she and her mother should have been.

She thus declares “I discover… on

The fact is that the use of AI to reproduce Dorval's voice not only poses an ethical problem at a time when voice actors rightly feel threatened by the rise of this technology, but the result heard in the trailer below is far from proving itself.

Between the monotony of the tone and the robotic aspect of this voice, it is difficult to take this French version of Stallone seriously.

Watch the trailer for Armor :

The feature film should be released on Prime Video in France in March and we wonder if the platform should change its mind and finally call on another actor, very much alive, to dub Sly.

As our colleagues at TeleramaRichard Darbois, who has already dubbed the actor for several films including Demolition Man And Coplandwould surely have been a more prudent choice.