AI Voice Cloning & ADR Spotting: A Shifting Landscape?

Hey everyone, I'm Rachel Adeyemi, a documentary editor, and I've been really curious about something lately, especially with how fast AI voice tech is developing.

In the last couple of years, with AI voice cloning getting so good, I'm wondering how the actual conversation around dialogue replacement has changed in ADR spotting sessions. I'm mainly cutting docs (often shot on a KOMODO or an FX3 with an MKH 8060, sometimes a SkyPanel S60-C if we have the budget for interviews), and we're always trying to balance authenticity with polish.

Historically, it's always been about if the performance can be salvaged, if we can clean up the audio using RX, or if we really need to bring in the talent for ADR. But now, it feels like there's this elephant in the room. Have directors and producers started openly discussing AI voice cloning as a viable option in these sessions, especially for minor fixes or even more significant pickups where the original talent is unavailable or prohibitively expensive? Has anyone seen a noticeable shift in how these discussions unfold?