Indiewire Thursday April 25, 2024
With OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video generator on its way, and Adobe incorporating AI into video editing apps, a group of documentary filmmakers, producers, and archivists has written a set of guidelines on how filmmakers should and should not use the powerful technology in their documentary movies. The outline of best practices comes from an organization called the Archival Producers Alliance, notes Indiewire. The initial guidelines say that it’s okay to use AI to lightly touch up or restore an image, but filmmakers “should think very carefully about anything that would be newly created,” reports IW.
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the byte Thursday April 25, 2024
Netflix has used “what strongly appears” to be AI-generated or AI-manipulated images in a recent documentary about a murder-for-hire plot, notes The Byte. The documentary, What Jennifer Did, examines the case of Jennifer Pan, who was convicted of a 2010 kill-for-hire attack on her parents. The doc used photos to illustrate what one of Pan's high school friends called her "bubbly, happy, confident, and very genuine" personality. But the images “have all the hallmarks of an AI-generated photo, down to mangled hands and fingers,” notes The Byte.
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PetaPixel Thursday April 25, 2024
Instagram head Adam Mosseri claims that there are two reasons why your posts isn’t reaching all your followers — and it’s apparently got nothing to do with Insta's algorithm. In a recent post at Threads, Mosseri said that “nobody” reaches every single one of their followers due to two primary reasons: “[O]ne, a lot of your followers won’t open the app that day, and two, those who do log in have far more posts to see than they have time to spend.” However, notes PetaPixel, many content creators suggested that Mosseri was “gaslighting” them.
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David Schonauer Thursday April 25, 2024
Man Ray is best known for his still imagery. But as one of the key figures in the Dada and Surrealist movements of the 1920s, his works spanned various media, including film. He was a leading
exponent of Cinema Pur, or "Pure Cinema," which rejected such "bourgeois" conceits as character, setting and plot. Four films Man Ray directed between 1923 and 1929 represent a … Read the full Story >>
