Associate Professor in Filmmaking, University of Reading. Expert in deepfakes and synthetic media; makes films, writes about films. @UniofReading
Joined April 2018
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24 Jan 2025
The controversy over a modest use of AI in 'The Brutalist' has got out of hand. Here's my take on the argument: theconversation.com/ai-voice…
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19 Dec 2024
'Performers are the canaries in the coalmine': experts from @ftt_reading Synthetic Media Research Network weigh in on the need for AI regulation in the UK's film and TV industries at Parliament inquiry.
🔗rdg.ac/41DtfiA
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12 Nov 2024
I've just come back from the Slobodna Zona (Free Zone) Film Festival in Belgrade, a superb human rights focused event. Thanks to Lena Trifunović and Tamara Mylo at the SONAR sidebar talks, who invited me to speak on the panel on AI in film. @ftt_reading @UniRdg_Research
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6 Nov 2024
The recording of my public lecture on 'Deepfakes and AI in Film and Media' is available to view here: youtube.com/watch?v=SkPT3ueT…
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28 Oct 2024
Our AI Michael Parkinson spoke publicly for the first time on this morning on @BBCRadio4! @ImJamieAnderson & Mike Parkinson had a discussion about 'Virtually Parkinson', which comes out later this year. The pod follows all the guidelines of Pact & Equity UK & has a twist to it!
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24 Oct 2024
This #MediaLiteracy Week, the spotlight is on generative AI - and it's potential to distort and disinform.
In this month's public lecture, @DominicLees asks can you still trust what you see?
30 Oct, 19:30-20:45. Sign up for the livestream now: rdg.ac/3Y5J9jH
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18 Oct 2024
Here's the trailer for my Public Lecture, 'Deepfakes and AI in film and media', 30th Oct 2024. In person tickets have sold out, but please join us on the livestream. youtube.com/live/SkPT3ueTNvQ @UniofReading @UniRdg_Research @ftt_reading @CommonsCMS @responsibleaiuk
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7 Oct 2024
I'm looking forward to delivering a public lecture on Generative AI in film and its cultural and political implications - please join us on 30th October. Book here 👉 rdg.ac/3Y5J9jH
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21 Aug 2024
Many thanks to Documentary Campus for inviting me to speak on AI and filmmaking at the CineLink Industry Days. @30thSFF is fantastic! I also gave talks on AI to the inspirational Talents Sarajevo young filmmakers. @Doc_Campus @UniRdg_Research @ftt_reading
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30 Jun 2024
“Documentary makers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck present us with a dilemma: now that AI can achieve a simulated conversation with your dead loved one, would you take up the offer?”
@dominiclees reviews Eternal You, out now. buff.ly/4ciK9FU
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6 May 2024
Thanks to DOK.forum for hosting a series of very important discussions on AI and film, at HFF Munich 1-3 May. Honoured to join these great thinkers for a panel on ethics and AI - Cassie Quarless, Stefanie Urchs and @NadineHammele
@UniRdg_Research @ftt_reading
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20 Apr 2024
I'm honoured to have been invited to join the panel on AI and Ethics at DOKfest Munich. These debates will shape the future of our industry. documentary-campus.com/event… @UniofReading @UniRdg_Research @ftt_reading @Doc_Campus
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11 Apr 2024
📢We are excited to announce that our very own Alex Serdiuk, Respeecher CEO, had a captivating interview on @BBC Radio 4!🎙️
Tune in at the 49-minute mark to get a glimpse of the innovative technology reshaping the sound industry 👉🏻 hubs.li/Q02szxrY0
#voicecloning #AIVoice
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12 Mar 2024
Honoured to be invited to deliver a keynote on actors and AI at the ZFICTION conference next week blog.zhdk.ch/zfiction/2024/0… @UniRdg_Research @ftt_reading @EquityUK #AI @UniofReading
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7 Mar 2024
Here's an in-depth podcast discussion about issues in the creative use of deepfakes in filmmaking. Thanks to the great team at 'The Last Human Voice'. @UniRdg_Research #deepfakes #ArtificialIntelligence #VirtualMaggie #uniofreading @ftt_reading thelasthumanvoice.buzzsprout…
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4 Mar 2024
Voice actors & the National Association of Voice Actors are voicing the need for "consent, compensation, & control" in AI #voiceovers. Leading the charge, #Respeecher champions #ethicalAI, ensuring creator protection.
👉 hubs.li/Q02n1JRM0 #voicecloning #videogame
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18 Feb 2024
Watch Marco Tempest's beautiful use of GenAI to tell the story of Ada Lovelace youtube.com/watch?v=-8fsWdqa…
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17 Feb 2024
OpenAI's new #AI video tool shows us that market domination can leverage legal uncertainty, lack of or high-level regulation to its advantage. How will that support innovation, creative workers' rights or citizen welfare?
We talk this through w/ @symeonbrown on @Channel4News
16 Feb 2024
Sora: the AI tool that instantly creates video from text
channel4.com/news/sora-the-a…
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7 Feb 2024
The UK government's strategy on AI throws the ball to Labour and ultimately.. lower case 'labour' @technollama
Creative workers and SMEs are at serious risks of being squeezed out of their market without safeguarding regulation.
Link to the AI strategy: assets.publishing.service.go…
6 Feb 2024
No code of conduct, no new legislation. So, this government is throwing the ball to Labour and doesn't want to pick a side.
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1 Feb 2024
Award-winning digital artist Yvonne Muinde shares her thoughts on #AI for visual effects and her experience on blockbuster movies like #Avatar and The Hobbit in @LHVpodcast
Can you really paint with AI? 🎨🖌️
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