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‘Significant Challenges’ in Use of AI Within UK Screen Sector
- The British Film Institute published a report on June 10, 2025, detailing how generative AI is reshaping the UK screen sector.
- This report follows rapid AI adoption, including post-production use on the Oscar-winning film The Brutalist and widespread industry licensing deals.
- The sector faces major issues related to copyright, the need for transparency, environmental impact from carbon emissions, and a shortage of the necessary skills to effectively integrate AI technology.
- The report presents nine recommendations aiming to support ethical, sustainable AI integration with a focus on IP licensing, training, and environmental impact mitigation.
- The BFI warns that addressing these challenges is essential to maintain the UK’s global leadership in screen creative innovation and avoid being outpaced internationally.
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Scripts from more than 130,000 films and TV shows have been used to train generative AI models, which a BFI report said today “poses a threat to the fundamental economics of the screen sector.” The report taps into major concerns over artificial intelligence and copyright, coming as the UK government considers legislation that would mean […]
BFI Report Sets Out 9 Recommendations to Ensure “Ethical, Sustainable, Inclusive AI” Use
"AI in the Screen Sector: Perspectives and Paths Forward," designed to guide the U.K. to "capitalize on its creative strengths," mentions the post-production AI use on 'The Brutalist,' among others.
BFI Publishes Report Into AI, Makes Key Recommendations for U.K. Screen Sector on Issues Including Rights, Carbon Impact and Ethics
The British Film Institute has made nine key recommendations concerning AI in the U.K. screen sector touching on rights, carbon impact and ethics
UK delays AI regulation one year to make it more far-reaching
Ministers in Westminster have paused the promised AI regulation, delaying it by at least a year to develop a far-reaching bill expected next summer that will regulate the technology and its use of copyrighted material. The original plan, conceived shortly after Labour’s ascension, was a tightly focused measure targeting large language models; it would have obliged firms to submit their systems… Source
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