New Delhi, Nov. 13 -- Yes, artificial intelligence (AI) was employed to alter the voices of some of this year's Oscar-nominated films. Even though AI was used to improve Adrian Brody's accent when speaking Hungarian in his starring role in The Brutalist, he still won the Academy Award for best actor. And in Jacques Audiard's transgender gangster musical Emilia Perez, Karla Sofia Gascón's singing voice was enhanced using AI cloning. Is this a definite sign of Hollywood embracing AI?

This was noteworthy because AI has long been portrayed as a villain in Hollywood. Wasn't AI a major point of contention in the dual strikes by Hollywood writers and actors just two years ago, which resulted in agreements to guarantee that workers retained...