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Writers and actors aren’t the only people in Hollywood grappling with the impact generative artificial intelligence will have on the entertainment industry. Documentarians are also concerned about AI and what it means for the ethical standards and practices of nonfiction filmmaking. In addition to deepfakes, and AI-created photography and music, there’s also the issue of AI-generated “Frankenbiting,” which makes it easier than ever before to edit clips and/or dialogue out of sequence.

Source: Doc Filmmakers Debate Growing Use of AI in Non-Fiction Projects: ‘We Are Supposed to Be the Truth’

Entertainment executives say bots won’t be penning scripts soon, calling such fears overblown. But big companies across Hollywood, including Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global and NBCUniversal, are already using AI tools in other ways and are actively exploring new applications, from summarizing scripts to special-effects to promotional marketing, people familiar with the situation say.

Source: Hollywood’s Fight: How Much AI Is Too Much?

Authors, artists and internet publishers demand compensation for the alleged use of their work to train generative-AI systems sweeping the globe. OpenAI and Google have both said they train their AI models on “publicly available” information, a phrase that experts say encompasses a spectrum of content, including from paywalled and pirated sites.

Source: Outcry Against AI Companies Grows Over Who Controls Internet’s Content

Generative AI poses a major threat to visual content. The issue isn’t simply that fake images could be mistaken for real ones. It’s actually more concerning that real images could lose their credibility. The former issue can lead to deception, while the latter can foster distrust. Distrust is particularly problematic because, unlike deception, distrust undermines the very foundation of a relationship and is essentially irreversible.

Source: Protecting your content in the age of AI – Kaptur

Leading artificial intelligence companies on Wednesday unveiled plans to launch an industry-led body to develop safety standards for rapidly advancing technology, outpacing Washington policymakers who are still debating whether the U.S. government needs its own AI regulator. Google, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic introduced the Frontier Model Forum, which the companies say will advance AI safety research and technical evaluations for the next generation of AI systems.

Source: AI companies form new safety body, while Congress plays catch up

In January, artificial intelligence powerhouse OpenAI announced a tool that could save the world—or at least preserve the sanity of professors and teachers—by detecting whether a piece of content had been created using generative AI tools like its own ChatGPT. Half a year later, that tool is dead, killed because it couldn’t do what it was designed to do.

Source: OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Its AI Detection Tool – Decrypt

Over the past 25 years or so, it has become increasingly common for big-budget media productions to create digital doubles of at least some performers’ face and body. The digital doubles seen in today’s media productions still rely on human performers and special effects artists. Here’s how the technology works—and how AI is shaking up the established process.

Source: Can AI Replace Actors? Here’s How Digital Double Tech Works

The perils of artificial intelligence to the entertainment industry came to San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, with SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland joining a panel of voice actors organized by NAVA, the National Association of Voice Actors, to discuss the specific hazards AI is already posing to the profession.

Source: Voice Actors Decry AI at Comic-Con Panel With SAG-AFTRA’s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland: ‘We’ve Lost Control Over What Our Voice Could Say’

Barry Diller fired publishers’ opening shot at artificial intelligence platforms in a Semafor interview this April, suggesting they sue the companies that have trained models on their data. Now his company, IAC, and a handful of key publishers are close to formalizing a coalition that could lead a lawsuit as well as press for legislative action, people at those companies said.

Source: Publishers want billions, not millions, from AI

Google is in discussions with news publishers about building and selling artificial intelligence tools that could help reporters and editors produce written journalism, a potential major acceleration of the practice of using automated tools to produce news content. The product was pitched as possibly being able to collect information as part of newsgathering, write an early draft of a news story, and handle postproduction elements like writing social media posts.

Source: Google pitches media outlets on AI that could help produce news