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#AlAudio #GenerativeAl #FreeTools #Voiceover #Productivity

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International Animation Unions Plan Protest Against AI at Annecy Festival: ‘Generative Al Do Not Support Artists, It Destroys Them’
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/animation-unions-anti-ai-protest-annecy-1236424470/

Annecy Festival is as important as the Oscars for the world of animation. Annecy is where you find the best new art in the medium, and can also spot innovations and trends. Excellent to see this coordinated statement from unions and artists at Annecy Festival about the value of art and artists, and the negative effects we're seeing emerging from LLMs.

#AI #GenerativeAl #LLMs #Animation
#Annecy #AnnecyFestival #StopMotionAnimation

International Animators Plan Protest Against AI at Annecy Festival

Global animation unions are planning a protest against AI at Annecy, citing job loss and environmental impact, as they call for regulations.

Variety

"O propósito subjacente da IA ​​é permitir que os ricos tenham acesso à habilidades, ao mesmo tempo em que retira dos qualificados a capacidade de acessar a riqueza."

#ai #generativeAl #ia #ArtificialIntelligence

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What's The Environmental Cost Of AI? (Pt. 1) | NPR

> By 2028, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory forecasts that U.S. #dataCenters could use as much as 12% of the nation's electricity. The reason: #generativeAl. Since 2022, Al innovation by four leading tech companies - #Google, #Microsoft, #Meta and #Amazon - has led to annual increases in both #energy and water consumption.

https://one.npr.org/i/1249592906:1269272812 #environment #water

🔊 Listen Now: What's The Environmental Cost Of AI?

Short Wave on NPR One | 15:12

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that's scary accurate!
#ai #generativeAl

🆕 Recommendations on the Use of Al in Scholarly Communication by our Peer Review Committee

Responsible/transparent use of #LargeLanguageModels/ #GenerativeAl with links to policies & practices for:
  Authorship
  Citations & lit review
📊 Data collection, cleaning, analysis & interpretation
🧑‍💻 Data/code generation
🖼️ Tables, images & videos
📝 Language & style editing
⚒️ Editorial work
🎓 #PeerReview creation & editing
📄 Paper creation, editing & revision
https://ease.org.uk/communities/peer-review-committee/peer-review-toolkit/recommendations-on-the-use-of-ai-in-scholarly-communication/
#AItools

Recommendations on the Use of AI in Scholarly Communication - EASE

EASE

A good succinct definition...

Edit: by @jeffowski

#AI #GenerativeAl #AGI