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Protests Against Artificial Intelligence Planned For Annecy Animation Fest

Artificial Intelligence protests are planned At Annecy Animation Festival and a group of unions will read out a statement against its danger.

A slew of AI-related talks are set to take place over the next 72 hours at the festival’s MIFA market and we are told that small groups of protestors are prepared to make their voices heard. “It is an undeniable fact: the animated film industry has been suffering greatly for several years,” it reads, citing challenges such as “massive layoffs, the offshoring of jobs, mergers, liquidations and receiverships that lead to the closure of studios and increasingly restricted budgets.” (…) It endangers the creative and technical professions in each of the industries cited, which will ultimately lead not only to an inevitable loss of knowledge and talent lost forever, but also to the privatization of all artistic processes and of thought itself.”

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