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The Synthesis: Can AI—or documentary—get us closer to human authenticity? | International Documentary Association
The Synthesis: Can AI—or documentary—get us closer to human authenticity? | International Documentary Association
In this interview, Marc Isaacs discusses his latest provocation, a hybrid doc set at the fictional “Synthetic Sincerity Lab”
WORLDING is a Verb: Co-Creating Climate Futures with 3D Game Environments and Community Wisdom | From Artificial Intelligence to Augmented Wisdom
WORLDING is a Verb: Co-Creating Climate Futures with 3D Game Environments and Community Wisdom | From Artificial Intelligence to Augmented Wisdom
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The Synthesis: We Must Protect Human Creativity from Being Flattened by AI
The Synthesis: We Must Protect Human Creativity from Being Flattened by AI
In a recent joint submission to a call for contributions on AI and Creativity at the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, WITNESS, the Co-Creation Studio at MIT, and the Archival Producers Alliance (APA) outlined these pressing dangers. Drawing from years of frontline research, workshops, and advocacy with creative communities and human rights defenders around the world, we identified seven core threats AI poses to human creativity.
The Synthesis: Here’s What Happened When We Prompted Sora With Taglines From Oscar-Winning Documentaries
The Synthesis: Here’s What Happened When We Prompted Sora With Taglines From Oscar-Winning Documentaries
Sora, a new generative AI video tool from Open AI, is named after the Japanese word for sky. Is the sky the limit? Last year, the company gave early access to 300 artists, some of whom later denounced the company’s product release as artwashing. OpenAI responded with a series of exclusive promotional screenings of artist-made films for industry executives in New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. What might this all mean for the documentary field? We decided to run our own experiment. To test the limits of Sora, we prompted it with the taglines from the six most recent Oscar-winning documentaries. We showed the resulting 15-second silent clips to a panel of seven documentary luminaries over Zoom.
The Synthesis: All Bets Are Off for AI and Documentary—It’s Time for a Reset
The Synthesis: All Bets Are Off for AI and Documentary—It’s Time for a Reset
When it comes to AI and documentary, all bets are off in 2025. So, we scrapped our column line-up for The Synthesis and hit reset. To recap, it’s been a dizzying year so far: in Europe, the February Paris AI Policy Action summit failed to usher in much meaningful regulation, and in the U.S., under the new Presidential administration, a March directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates the mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.” To reboot in this context, we checked in with a few documentarians, artists, and human rights advocates. We asked them this question: In this unregulated and dysregulated landscape, what are the immediate and new concerns of AI shaping the future of documentary filmmaking in 2025?
JACKSON 2BEARS in ARTS AT MIT
JACKSON 2BEARS in ARTS AT MIT
WORLDING Lightning Talks
WORLDING Lightning Talks
WORLDING in MIT NEWS
WORLDING in MIT NEWS
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Collective Wisdom Book at MIT Press
Collective Wisdom Book at MIT Press
Co-creation is everywhere: It's how the internet was built; it generated massive prehistoric rock carvings; it powered the development of vaccines for COVID-...
CoCr Alum Assia Boundaoui's op-ed in LA Times
CoCr Alum Assia Boundaoui's op-ed in LA Times
After the New Yorker piece on Minhaj's standup specials, I fear people will now believe that Muslims are exaggerating or fabricating stories about surveillance.
ANNOUNCING 2023 WORLDING TEAMS
ANNOUNCING 2023 WORLDING TEAMS
Co-Creation Studio at MIT ODL
Co-Creation Studio at MIT ODL
MIT Open Documentary Lab
MIT Open Documentary Lab
ACCESS & DISABILITY in IMMERSIVE MEDIA
ACCESS & DISABILITY in IMMERSIVE MEDIA
HIGHLIGHTS FROM IDA DISABILITY IMMERSIVE PANEL
HIGHLIGHTS FROM IDA DISABILITY IMMERSIVE PANEL
Largely due to the ongoing efforts of disabled artists and activists, ensuring art is accessible—to both audience members and artists—has moved from the margins to a central topic in creating, producing, and staging immersive nonfiction.
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