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Artists Debate the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Emotionally-Charged Annecy Roundtable: ‘Don’t You Think Humans Want Human Art?’
Artificial intelligence has cast a shadow over much of this year's Annecy Festvial. Today, a group of artists discussed the tech at a MIFA roundtable.
According to Creative Seeds’ co-founder Camille Campion, the main issue with AI-generated material is, “You have little to no way of knowing if the art is genuinely new or just a copy of someone else’s work, which is why legal solutions, such as the recent EU Act on AI, are so relevant today for the industry. During their R&D process with Stable Diffusion, they encountered many obstacles, such as cultural bias, gender inequality, and shady-inspired visuals in the rendered images that they had to sort through before achieving a coherent and unique creation. But where some key media and entertainment decision-makers seem to have made up their minds, such as Passion Games Executive Producer Karen Troop, who believes “in human-assist and human-augment AI, allowing more people – and on that topic, women – to enter the industry,” many French and European artists seem to struggle with whether they should trust those tools or not.
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