BERLIN (AP) — An experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the southeastern German town of Bayreuth drew boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused.
Curator Marcus Lobbes and his team were greeted with boos and whistles as they took to the stage at the end of Saturday evening’s performance of “Götterdämmerung,” German news agency dpa reported. However, there was warm applause for the singers and musicians, and particularly for conductor Christian Thielemann.
Festival organizers said ahead of the performance that it would be the first time AI took part on stage at the event, “not as a character, but as an image-generating force.” They said that singers would be “the fixed point within a visually seething cosmos of light, texture, history, and association, amidst projections that erupt, constantly shift, and merge into one another.”
Honestly hoping that people who try to take jobs away from the vast plurality of entertainment workers for their own fucking greed fall flat on their face. We don’t want your AI slop, motherfuckers.
AI has no soul, entertainment plays to the soul.
there is a % of people that love ai everything and another % that hate ai or don’t want ai everywhere, and i think it is getting a bit echo chambery, and don’t realize it until the boos. i was on a technical conference few months ago, there was a lot of ai slop on the presentations, i would have boo if i wasn’t there on behalf of my employer lol
My employer has Copilot, but the conversations about when and where we use it are always measured and we always weigh the time gained vs the time that would need to be spent validating the output. It is useful at times, like today, when I wanted to pull 200 footnotes out of a word document and into an excel sheet. I’m still going to have to check every line item, but validating will take less time than doing the work manually.
I also work in the legal industry, so just whipping things up via sloppification isn’t realistic since screwing up has massive implications for the firm and the client.
Fingers crossed every day for some great news from Washington, but this is a good start to my morning.
Festival organizers said ahead of the performance that it would be the first time AI took part on stage at the event, “not as a character, but as an image-generating force.” They said that singers would be “the fixed point within a visually seething cosmos of light, texture, history, and association, amidst projections that erupt, constantly shift, and merge into one another.”
Pretentious-to-English translation: “You see that, Sly? That’s hallucinations.”
