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China turns gay couple straight with AI in Dave Franco film 'Together'
The age of AI censorship is here.Moviegoers in China have reported that a scene in the horror movie Together has been altered from its original version to make a gay couple straight, according to Bloomberg News.Viewers in China who saw the film, directed by Michael Shanks and starring real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie, said that one scene was digitally altered to make a gay male couple into a heterosexual couple. According to reports, in one scene featuring a same-sex wedding between two men, one of the men's faces was altered to be a woman's, seemingly using AI.The scene is used to reveal plot points in the film, meaning that the change to a heterosexual wedding makes the plot more confusing.Some heterosexual sex scenes were also removed from the film, according to Yahoo! News. (@) Users on Douban, a Chinese site similar to IMDb, immediately complained.Thats great! one wrote. We can re-release Brokeback Mountain, God's Own Country, Lan Yu, and Happy Together, and use AI to remake them into heterosexual romances with just one click. Thats faster and better than taking Chinese medicine! We're so beautiful here! We have hope!Backlash to the change has continued to grow, leading to the film's Chinese distributor delaying its wide release just a day before it was scheduled to premiere last week.China has long maintained strict censorship rules for films and has previously censored them. In 2016, the country's censors banned "abnormal sexual behavior" in films and TV.In 2019, the Chinese version of the Freddy Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody edited out about two minutes of content, including gay kisses, a short discussion of Mercury's sexuality, and a scene featuring the "I Want to Break Free" music video where the band dresses in drag.
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