Academy Awards organisers issued new rules on Friday to clarify that acting and writing must be performed by humans and not artificial intelligence to be eligible for Oscars. The new rules also include changes to the international film category, expanding eligibility to include films that won top awards from prestigious festivals like Cannes, Venice and Toronto.
Does this also mean that my calculator with googly eyes glued onto it isn’t eligible for the Nobel Prize in physics? This is discrimination!
Well no, there’s no Nobel prize for math. Maybe it can claim a Field’s Medal instead.
Why math?
it surprises me that anyone disagrees with this. i am not anti ai at all but why would we hand out awards to ao generated stuff? whats the accomplishmennt?
Well done! I love seeing AI get it’s feelings hurt.
I wonder how this will affect stunt work, as studios are using AI more and more frequently to deepfake the actor’s face onto the stuntman’s performance. While it’s still like 98% human performance on-screen, that 2% - the face - is really important for it to be replaced with AI-generated material.
The article only calls out the “Acting” and “Writing” categories, and the language suggests they are mainly concerned with a human doing the actual substantive work. So in this case, stunt work that is duly credited will probably still be eligible, even if they alter it as you suggest. The whole point of stunt work is to have a stand-in do it, but have it look like the main character in the final product.
Even before AI ate everything, a lot of visual effects have been created with CGI, and they still gave out Oscars for visual effects.
I’ve preemptively banned all aliens from Andromeda from my property.
Heh, meat-bags are afraid that they might be left without awards. Poor-poor celebrities. Pass me a napkin to wipe down the tears. Pffft.
LLMs aren’t artists capable of originality, and thus shouldn’t be eligible to win awards for their output.
Any AI, LLM or otherwise, isn’t human by definition.
Human art should be by and for humans. AI art masquerading as human art is reprehensible.
AI art might need its own set of awards though. I don’t see a problem with AI art being valued on its own merits, it’s the deception and theft that are the problems.
Current LLMs being fully based on theft I think should be disqualified, but I don’t want to rule out the possibility that some future AI won’t be worthy of its own consideration.
LLMs are less human than monkeys, and so are not granted any copyright at all for any near-art created through them just as a human can’t claim copyright over what apes do with a camera.
The question isn’t whether or not the overgrown reddit-comment-simulator is original or not The question is if its output counts as writing and acting. And the answer to that is a strong no.
Just set up a separate set of awards for AI artists and creators. Meat-bags and non-meat-bags can tune in if they care.
Win win for everyone.
What for?
For anyone that doesn’t agree with the decision in this article
It doesn’t make much sense. For example, I disagree with their decision, but I don’t need or want the separate Oscar-like award for LLMs.
