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Premiere of movie with AI-generated script cancelled amid outrage
Ray Choi
June 24, 2024
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🎦 Premiere of movie with AI-generated script cancelled amid outrage
📸 Facebook is already mistakenly tagging real photos as "Made with AI"
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The premier of a movie featuring an entirely AI-generated script was canceled last week amid public backlash, The Daily Beast reports.
Per the Beast, the not-for-profit movie, titled "The Last Screenwriter," was due to debut this weekend at London's Prince Charles Cinema. But just a few days prior to the planned event, the showing was suddenly canceled. The cinema's reason for axing it, according to director Peter Luisi? Complaints. Lots of them.
"I think people don't know enough about the project," the director told the Beast. "All they hear is 'first film written entirely by AI' and they immediately see the enemy, and their anger goes towards us. But I don't feel like that way at all. I feel like the film is not at all saying 'this is how movies should be.'"
The director also described the film as an exploration of the "man versus machine" trope, telling the Beast that in "all of these movies, a human imagined how this scenario would be."
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Photographers are furious, accusing Meta of mistakenly labeling their legitimate work with a "Made with AI" label across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
As TechCrunch reports, the social media giant's efforts to tamp down on the proliferation of unlabeled, AI-generated images are having plenty of undesirable consequences.
That's despite an urgent need, with tampered — and at times deceptively photorealistic — media spreading misinformation online largely unchecked, especially on Facebook.
The false positives also highlight just how difficult it has become even for a top tech company to tell what's real and what isn't. Even OpenAI has struggled greatly to develop an effective detection tool that can distinguish between AI-generated and human-authored text.
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Listen or read the following transcript as Richard Belcher discusses how God’s governance and sovereignty manifest in times of suffering and trials, offering insights into understanding and trusting in God’s purposes during difficult periods.
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