All AI and ethics articles
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Industry TrendsIBC Roundtable - Beyond the hype: how media finds true value in AI today
Participants at a roundtable on AI in media and entertainment at IBC2024 assessed some of the opportunities and challenges confronting media companies seeking to tap the potential of generative AI across a range of applications.
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VideoCan AI be regulated? What public policy can(‘t) do to address AI risks
Over the past year, the regulation of AI has been a hot political topic in Europe and in the world. Politicians and regulators have attempted to come up with responses to the new risks created by the rapid development of AI, from surveillance to AI’s impact on the media and ...
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VideoAI in Broadcasting: Personalisation at Lightning Speed – Balancing Innovation, Privacy, and Ethics
This conversation delves into the transformative impact of AI on the broadcasting industry, focusing on two key areas: hyper-personalized content delivery and rapid video publishing. As broadcasters harness AI to tailor programming, advertisements, and recommendations to individual viewers, they also leverage tools like Arc XP’s integrated CMS and Generative AI ...
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Industry TrendsIBC2024 Accelerator Project: Digital Replicas and Talent ID
Digital Replicas and Talent ID: Provenance, Verification and New Automated Workflows is one of the eight challenges in this year’s cohort for the IBC2024 Accelerator Media Innovation Programme. The project is championed by Paramount Global and includes participant HAND Identity (ID).
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Executive InterviewsIBC Conference: Andy Hood on how AI represents the “next step in creative technology”
Andy Hood, VP Emerging Technologies at WPP will participate in the Keynote Fireside Chat: ‘At the intersection of AI and creativity: Why the future lies in Human-Machine Collaboration’ at this year’s IBC Conference. The session will focus on the ways in which AI opens new possibilities for experimental creativity by ...
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Industry TrendsTraining models responsibly: AI and creator rights
Sony Music recently sent a letter to hundreds of AI companies demanding to know if they had used their music for training or scraping, and that this represented copyright infringement. While some AI developers are happy to embrace the current Wild West landscape of AI regulation, others have employed responsible ...
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NewsScarlett Johansson accuses OpenAI over chatbot voice
Actress Scarlett Johansson has accused artificial intelligence company OpenAI of allegedly creating a voice for its new ChatGPT system that sounds “eerily similar” to hers.
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Executive InterviewsSMPTE: Transparency and education the keys to managing AI
SMPTE President Renard T. Jenkins calls on artists, lawmakers and the tech community to educate themselves about AI and to do so in sync with each other or fear and misuse will fill the gap.
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Industry TrendsSkills & Recruitment: Developing Workforces in the Age of Automation
The rapid but unpredictable rise of AI is making it harder than ever for companies in broadcast & media to predict their future skills requirements – but that shouldn’t be a reason to fall into despondency, discovers David Davies.
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Industry TrendsEBU Tackles Ethical AI in PSM
Artificial Intelligence will be transformative across all elements of the media business. It may well kill off some jobs but will inevitably create others, as well as raise many interesting questions, not least about creativity, data and trust. George Jarrett talks to EBU Director of Technology and Innovation Antonio Arcidiacono ...
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Industry TrendsAI and Ethics: The Defining Point of Content Creation
In the past few weeks, the news has been filled with one dramatic story after the other about AI, writes John Maxwell Hobbs. However, in a significant shift, rather than being about the technology itself, these stories have been about the people creating AI and those affected by it.
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Industry TrendsRegulating AI: Can new legislation impose order before it’s too late?
A raft of new laws are being drafted in a bid to deliver restraint to the increasingly rapid rollout of AI. But what do media technology developers think should be the priorities for legislation, and is it realistic to hope that some of the bleaker prognoses can still be avoided, ...
