> STATE AGENCY ÚDARÁS na Gaeltachta is facing a backlash from artists for running a competition encouraging film-making using artificial intelligence (AI).
> Údarás said Irish is a living language and that artificial intelligence is opening new doors for filmmaking in Irish. It’s offering a prize of €6,000 for the winner of its Togra Scéalaí competition, which it announced on social media.
That’s some cheddar for what would amount to zero quantifiable work; all while undercutting genuine artists attempting to express _themselves_, not manifest an end product defined by algorithm. I’ve watched a few AI “films”, and beyond the undoubted technical fidelity possible, they’re uniformly dead and pointless. Just disjointed nothings.
Terrible.
A pretty bad use of AI.
Are the people at UnaG as eager to use AI to replace their own work? To what extent are they making use of machine translation, which is a much more mature use of the tech than filmmaking.
This shit is exactly the problem with AI, how the fuck anyone justifies people STEALING CONTENT to make their own bullshit nonsense videos and then being paid for it, while the artists that made the artwork that was stolen to begin with have to put in mass amounts of effort for the same thing. AI needs to stay the fuck away from art and media, it has no place, it looks like dogshit, and it’s taking work away from genuinely creative and talented people with something to say, by directly taking both their work and their money.
That’s so bad.
What do you expect from odd quango with not a lot of employees.
They’re all kind of doing their own thing until there’s a fuck up.
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> STATE AGENCY ÚDARÁS na Gaeltachta is facing a backlash from artists for running a competition encouraging film-making using artificial intelligence (AI).
> Údarás said Irish is a living language and that artificial intelligence is opening new doors for filmmaking in Irish. It’s offering a prize of €6,000 for the winner of its Togra Scéalaí competition, which it announced on social media.
That’s some cheddar for what would amount to zero quantifiable work; all while undercutting genuine artists attempting to express _themselves_, not manifest an end product defined by algorithm. I’ve watched a few AI “films”, and beyond the undoubted technical fidelity possible, they’re uniformly dead and pointless. Just disjointed nothings.
Terrible.
A pretty bad use of AI.
Are the people at UnaG as eager to use AI to replace their own work? To what extent are they making use of machine translation, which is a much more mature use of the tech than filmmaking.
This shit is exactly the problem with AI, how the fuck anyone justifies people STEALING CONTENT to make their own bullshit nonsense videos and then being paid for it, while the artists that made the artwork that was stolen to begin with have to put in mass amounts of effort for the same thing. AI needs to stay the fuck away from art and media, it has no place, it looks like dogshit, and it’s taking work away from genuinely creative and talented people with something to say, by directly taking both their work and their money.
That’s so bad.
What do you expect from odd quango with not a lot of employees.
They’re all kind of doing their own thing until there’s a fuck up.
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