Doc Panel Debates If AI Adoption Means We’ll “Simply End up Talking to Ourselves”
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During a festival in Copenhagen, a call was made for a "European public square" to avoid AI delivering to all of us "the narrative of our own mirror."
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Public interest media is being marginalized, generative AI is flooding the market with content, and communalities are evaporating. That was a scenario outlined by AI based on a prompt that was presented by Beadie Finzi, one of the co-directors of documentary non-profit Doc Society, on Monday as part the industry section of the 23rd edition of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, or CPH:DOX . Bruno Patino, head of ARTE France, which works on the European public service channel ARTE with ARTE Deutschland, a subsidiary of German public TV networks ARD and ZDF, addressed this scenario and outlined his vision for public media in Europe in a keynote address. “These are not predictions. This is already our present,” he offered. And he outlined what he described as the key risks for a future, in which “AI determines the citizens’ place in society, deciding the information, the culture and entertainment they have access to.” Related Stories Movies How Ursula K. Le Guin's "Carrier Bag Theory" Inspired Two CPH:DOX Films Movies Jessie Buckley Closes Her Best Actress Oscar Acceptance Speech With Gaelic Message Patino noted how in the social media age, social networks are “the primary gateway to information,” describing that as an algorithm-driven “push era.” He concluded about media consumption behavior: “People wait for content to reach them.” At the same time, “the very notion of scale is changing,” with global players looking for more weight and market power, such as in the Paramount Skydance deal for Warner Bros. Discovery, he said. Plus, the “funding ideas of our cultural model are under pressure.” All in all, in the social media age, “virality became central,” the executive concluded, leading to the “rise of the attention econom...
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