Theater and TV

AI Doesn’t Kill Jobs? Tell That to Freelancers

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“There’s now data to back up what freelancers have been saying for months. “You can talk to any artist at this point, and they have a story about how they were given AI reference material to work from, or lost a job,” says Southen. In addition to fewer projects, studios and production companies are cutting the amount of time for […]

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Hollywood’s AI Disclosure Dilemma

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Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios

“Generative AI has hit Hollywood, but you have to look hard to see it. Why it matters: With no laws or standards governing when and how to tell viewers about AI’s involvement in the creative process, film and TV makers are winging it — and further eroding the line between reality and fiction. Driving the news: Media companies and content […]

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First Music Video Generated By OpenAI’s Sora Is Here

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“OpenAI wowed the tech community and many in media and arts earlier this year — while also raising feathers of traditional videographers and artists — by showing off a new AI model called Sora that makes realistic, high-resolution and smooth video up to 60 seconds per clip. The tech remains unreleased to the public for now — OpenAI said at […]

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‘Terminator’ Creator James Cameron Says AI Could Replace Him — But Not Schwarzenegger

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“James Cameron, who dreamt up the evil Skynet artificial intelligence network in his 1984 film The Terminator, says an advanced AI system could one day do his job. “If you have an artificial general intelligence [system] that has an ego, that has consciousness, who’s to say that is not an artist?” the director who also made Titanic and the Avatar […]

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