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Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”
Int'l Animation Guilds Hold "Historic" Anti- Generative AI Protest At Annecy: "GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them"
Around 150 people joined them on the stretch of grass known as Le Paquier in front of the festival’s key hub of the Bonlieu National Theater, holding guild flags and banners expressing their rejection of AI. Belgian-based director, storyboard, layout and background artist Lauri Sanders, who heads up the AI task force at Belgium’s animation workers union ABRACA, read out a statement laying out their concerns and demands. It is the workers that were staffed up with false promises that are feeling the repercussions through mass layoffs, the increased use of outsourcing, mergers and acquisitions that lead to the closure of studios and ever decreasing budgets.
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