I cover AI for a living — and this documentary scared the heck out of me

After watching Prime Video’s new AI documentary, one statistic genuinely shook me: more than 20,000 people are building AGI ...
Inverse

Could AI Make This Documentary? Filmmakers Grapple With The Rise Of The Machines

How do you make a movie about AI that’s not going to be out of date within 24 hours? That was the question that Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell, co-directors for the blistering new documentary The AI ...
The Hollywood Reporter

As Documentary Producers Release Guidelines for Generative AI, a Multi-Year Initiative Begins

The Archival Producers Alliance will host workshops and panels to help non-fiction filmmakers navigate the ethical use of generative AI. By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter At the Camden ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Thousands of documentaries are fueling AI models built by Apple, Meta, and Nvidia

In November, The Atlantic published a groundbreaking investigation that showed more than 138,000 films and TV episodes had been used as training data for AI models. Until then it had been widely ...
Yahoo

Contributor: Great documentaries reveal history's truth. Unregulated AI threatens to distort it

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A furious political leader shouting a message of hate to an adoring audience. A child crying over the massacre of her family.
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AI-Generated Images Threaten Future of Documentary as People ‘Will Stop Believing Anything': ‘Deep Fake Is the Crime, AI Is a Tool'

Few issues are as widely dissected and discussed within the film business today as the possibilities and consequences of AI technology. When it comes to documentary filmmaking, the discussion takes on ...

Steven Soderbergh used AI in a documentary about John Lennon. And he wants to talk about it

The day John Lennon was shot, on Dec. 8, 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their ...
AOL

I watched the buzzy new AI documentary — and left feeling both hopeful and terrified

With AI here, and rapidly accelerating, we can’t help but wonder: are we doomed? Or is there a reason to be hopeful? That is the central question of Daniel Roher’s new film, The AI Doc: Or How I ...
Variety

New Documentary Studio Unfeatured Films Plans to Use AI to Bring Archival Photos to Life and Restore Old Footage (EXCLUSIVE)

Documentaries limited by a lack of available video may now have another option: Filmmaker and creative agency vet Daniel Clarke has launched Unfeatured Films, which he boasts will use “cost-effective ...
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TV Documentary On AI Stealing People’s Jobs Ends With A Brutal Twist

“Will AI Take My Job?”, a news documentary arguing whether or not artificial intelligence could truly replace human labor featured on Britain’s Channel 4 “Dispatches” Monday, took a surprise turn when ...
Variety

AI-Generated Images Threaten Future of Documentary as People ‘Will Stop Believing Anything’: ‘Deep Fake Is the Crime, AI Is a Tool’

Few issues are as widely dissected and discussed within the film business today as the possibilities and consequences of AI technology. When it comes to documentary filmmaking, the discussion takes on ...