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Generative AI and the documentary archive: creative opportunities and ethical abuses
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An AI research paper on Generative AI and the documentary archive: creative opportunities and ethical abuses.
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One of the most innovative uses of AI in documentary filmmaking has been its deployment in animating the audio archive (Lees, 2023), for instance enabling in-vision interviews to be generated from twentieth century sound recordings. More recently, Generative AI has been deployed to manipulate archival photographs, however such uses by documentarists have led, in certain cases, to storms of controversy (What Jennifer Did, Jenny Popplewell 2024). This chapter examines the practices of documentary filmmakers using AI to alter or augment archival sources, and the ethical issues raised. It develops a theoretical approach to the documentary archive in the age of AI, arguing that Jamie Baron’s concept of the ‘archive effect’ (2014) can now be updated to describe a new ‘GenAI archive effect’, in which the spectator reflects on the realism of the fake, sometimes indistinguishable from actuality video.
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