@Miles_Brundage: So he clearly knows more about this stuff than most people in film world... But some of his comments seem to suggest th…
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Miles Brundage critiques Ben Affleck's claims about avoiding AI trained on copyrighted material, noting that open-weight video models are indeed trained on copyrighted content.
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So he clearly knows more about this stuff than most people in film world…
But some of his comments seem to suggest that open weight video models aren’t trained on copyrighted material which…um…
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The Hollywood Reporter (@THR): Ben Affleck made news this week when he spoke about using AI on his new movie ‘Animals,’ and now he’s going deeper on his approach to use the technology in a responsible way.
Affleck spoke to THR at the film’s premiere: “I wouldn’t use something that trains on or has learned
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