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Woods told BI that he doesn't understand why it's legal for generative AI to take in existing creations and use them to regurgitate new work, profiting the company that owns the AI without compensating the original creators.
"Stealing other people's things and then generating something that's better in a matter of seconds is insane," Woods said. ...
Most recently, the horror studio Blumhouse Productions caught flak for partnering with Meta on a new initiative that will allow select filmmakers, including Casey Affleck, to test out the tech company's generative AI video system, Meta Movie Gen.
The system uses text inputs to create and edit realistic videos; in this partnership, the filmmakers would use the AI-generated video clips within larger works. ...
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