Generative AI in the News
NPR, All Things Considered, April 2024
As AI-Created Photorealistic Images Proliferate, Documentary Producers Draw Up Guidelines
The Hollywood Reporter, April 2024
Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record
404 Media, April 2024
Documentary Producers Set Best Practices for Generative-AI Use in Film
Indiewire: April 2024
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
New York Times, April 2024
Documentary Magazine, April 2024
George Carlin’s Estate Reaches Settlement After A.I. Podcast
New York Times, April 2024
Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, Nicki Minaj Among 200 Artists Calling for Responsible AI Music Practices
Billboard, April 2024
Tennessee Makes A.I. an Outlaw to Protect Its Country Music and More
New York Times, March 2024
BBC News releases new image and video authenticity verification technology
Photo Archive News, March 2024
OpenAI Unveils A.I. That Instantly Generates Eye-Popping Videos
New York Times, February 2024
The Copyright Debate in Generative AI: Challenges, Expert Perspectives and Predictions
Every Pixel, February 2024
Knowing Machines, Updated regularly
We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.
New York Times, January 2024
George Carlin's daughter slams AI imitation of late father, decries 'rape & pillage' of his art
NBC News, January 2024
The New Yorker, January 2024
State Legislators, Wary of Deceptive Election Ads, Tighten A.I. Rules
The New York Times, January 2024
Dark Corners of the Web Offer a Glimpse at A.I.’s Nefarious Future
The New York Times, January 2024
OpenAI Says New York Times Lawsuit Against It Is ‘Without Merit’
The New York Times, January 2024
Dream of Talking to Vincent van Gogh? A.I. Tries to Resurrect the Artist.
The New York Times, December 2023
E.U. Agrees on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Rules
The New York Times, December 2023
"Makers of the largest general-purpose A.I. systems, like those powering the ChatGPT chatbot, would face new transparency requirements. Chatbots and software that creates manipulated images such as “deepfakes” would have to make clear that what people were seeing was generated by A.I., according to E.U. officials and earlier drafts of the law."
Newly formed Archival Producers Alliance issues open letter on AI in docs
Realscreen, November 2023
The Generated Anchor: Startup Channel 1 To Premiere AI-Produced Newscast
Deadline, November 2023
Doc Producers Call for Generative A.I. Guardrails in Open Letter
The Hollywood Reporter, November 2023
AI-Generated Voices of John Legend, Demi Lovato and Charlie Puth Are Coming to YouTube
The Hollywood Reporter, November 2023
Deadline, November 2023
Édith Piaf’s voice re-created using AI so she can narrate own biopic
The Guardian, November 2023
Screendaily, November 2023
What Would It Take for an AI-Generated Song to Qualify for a Grammy?
Variety, October 2024
The Beatles: ‘final’ song Now and Then to be released thanks to AI technology
The Guardian, October 2023
Czech Republic’s Ji.hlava Doc Fest Launches Its Mission to Explore ‘What Images Can We Trust?’
Variety, October 2023
President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
The White House, October 2023
Generative AI and historical authority
National Council on Public History, October 2023
Senate Legislation Would Outlaw Unauthorized AI-Generated Likenesses; SAG-AFTRA Lauds “No Fakes Act”
Deadline, October 2023
* “The discussion draft includes a number of exclusions, including for news, documentaries and docudramas, as well as historical or biographical works. It also does not apply to the use of likenesses for comment and criticism, “scholarship satire or parody.”
Shutterstock will sell AI-generated art and 'compensate' human artists
New Scientist, Oct 2023
Robin Williams' daughter says she finds AI recreations of her father's voice 'personally disturbing'
Yahoo! News October, 2023
Getty Made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images
The Verge, Sept 2023
Getty Images promises its new AI contains no copyrighted art
September 2023
Spotify, Sept 2023
First Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated Selfie
404 Media, Sept 2023
Directors of Wilt Chamberlain documentary 'Goliath' defend use of AI in recreating legend's voice
Yahoo! Sports, July 2023
AI Decision-Making in Hollywood Is Already Here, Now What?
Hollywood Reporter, May 2023
People Are Creating Records of Fake Historical Events Using AI
Vice, March 2023
AI models spit out photos of real people and copyrighted images
MIT Technology review, February 2023
What happens when AI generates fake historical photos
The Observers, France24, February 2023
Doc Filmmakers Debate Growing Use of AI in Non-Fiction Projects: ‘We Are Supposed to Be the Truth’
Variety, August 2023
AI-Restoration in the Film Archive: Uprezzing the classics — and “generating” new ones?
Medium, September 2022
The Ethics of a Deepfake Anthony Bourdain Voice
The New Yorker, July 2021
Current Standards
PBS: Applying Standards to Generative AI Tools
September 2023
PBS Case Study -- Jurassic Art: AI-Generated Dino Doc
September 2023
Smithsonian Institution: Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns Policy
April 2022