"One of the things we've realized is once a piece of media exists, even if it is disclosed [that it’s AI generated], it can then be lifted out of any documentary, make its way onto the internet and into other films, and then it's forever part of the historic record [....] If it's being represented as this is a picture of this person, then that's what's going into the historic record," she added. "And it's very hard to pull that back."
"The photos of Jennifer are real photos of her," he added. "The foreground is exactly her. The background has been anonymized to protect the source."
Grimaldi's comments are extremely vague on a core point: exactly what "photo editing software" did the team use to "anonymize" the images, and did they involve AI? When he says the foreground is "exactly her," does that include her mangled fingers and teeth?
This absolutely tracks with what people I know said about people at Netflix when they interacted with them - they are unaware of their surroundings and full of shit / entitled / incompetent to an almost unbelievable degree. It explains a lot of events (The Witcher, Stranger Things). This guy who seems to sincerely believe that he can Jedi mind trick his way out of this question like a 4-year-old who says the cat ate the cookies is just a concrete example.
The producer is correct in that a lot of the stuff they use in these docuseries are mockups the make in photoshop and print out for the show to look nice. People only noticed it now because some graphics house got lazy and used a bunch of AI generated bullshit, and it looked like garbage. See, and they said it would take our jobs, well, ha! Take that, ya cheap assholes!
Usually, it takes graphics designers a long time to make sure everything looks great. It’s a lot of work. And that costs money. But they thought they could cut corners with AI. Well, this is the result.
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