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AI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in Germany

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Re: AI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in Germany

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So people go to an AI entertainment event to boo that its AI? Totally understand if its not your thing, but why go then?

Maybe I missed it, but the article gave no indication that this was advertised as AI related. It sounds like this was part of an annual festival and the audience was only told about the AI use at the opening

Re: AI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in Germany

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> The AI-assisted projections included scenes from previous performances of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle and historical themes, and drew from images pre-selected by Lobbes, the director of the Academy for Theater and Digitality in Dortmund, and his team.

Sounds so fucking gimmicky. Why do you need freaking AI for that, just use a straightforward algorithm to pick a random subset of images...

Re: AI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in Germany

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So people go to an AI entertainment event to boo that its AI? Totally understand if its not your thing, but why go then?

The Bayreuth Festival is a 150-year-old music festival and focuses on Wagner's music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayreuth_Festival