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How Should Documentaries Use AI?
One group is trying to answer that question.
“What I try to do is encourage people watching docs to think about every single cut that has any archival in it, about how there was someone whose hands were on every piece of that material coming into a documentary.” As they put it, the impetus isn’t to be outright skeptical about generative AI, but simply to develop a resource that helps filmmakers handle the technology in a responsible way. So, I’ve had conversations with people working on generative-AI tools about this kind of stuff, and one argument that routinely comes up is this idea where the thinking would be along the lines of: “But isn’t it great that we get to see representation of a historical subject we otherwise wouldn’t be able to visualize?” What are your thoughts on that sentiment? We’ve tried to keep the guidelines broad in a lot of ways because the legal and technical landscape are evolving very rapidly, and we want to make sure that they can remain relevant while people are starting to navigate this in real time.
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