aceSynthetic Sincerity review – Marc Isaacs’ AI interrogation grapples with identity and existence
Marc Isaacs’ new film is a curious, intriguing, semi-sincere affair that I couldn’t make friends with. It is an odd, shallow piece of work about artificial intelligence that is itself exasperatingly artificial, a self-aware docudrama hybrid. Isaacs is, or rather pretends to be, licensing the vivid characters from his previous, acclaimed documentaries to a fictional AI research lab called Synthetic Sincerity at the fictional University of Southern England, so that the lab’s software can be “trained” in the creati…
Creating an AI version of a real exiled Uyghur man to speak for him is presented as patronising, and the film omits how an actor's face was obtained and transformed into an AI figure.
The review notes the film omits how consent and image transformation were handled for the actor whose face became an AI avatar.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-07-14
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