I had a chat with another writer who brought up a potential need to be extra diligent with contests and use of entries being used to train AI.
My thought is that contests would be smarter than to try to sneak that in the fine print of the rules, but I'm curious what folks think about such a thing.
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I hadn't thought of this but until a few days ago I hadn't thought about background actors allowing their image to be mapped and reused in scenes and thus owned, at least in part, by the production and, thus, a studio behind the production. It's always smart to read the fine print in every instance, regardless, and this is another reason for artists to be diligent about where and how they share their work.
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Sam Sokolow's right. One of our biggest problems today is that we rarely if ever read the fine print of what we're agreeing to online or in-person. We stopped questioning it because we're so used to downloading games, apps, software, etc, and clicking through the terms and conditions with laser-fast speed. The best thing we can do is slow down. Do your homework on where you're submitting. Read what they are actually planning to do for you if you win and how the material is being considered. Take your time to look into who the judges are and what the process will be. Contests can be very different in different places, so know as much as you can going in.
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I agree, Frank Hauser. And someone said contests need to put language in their policies that AI won't be allowed to copy/learn from their scripts.
Imagine Entertainment publicly said they use a script algorithm to weed out thousands of entries for their paid fellowships. I dont know if Imagine is doing fellowships anymore tho. And Im pretty sure Amazon studios used a script program to filter thousands of ppl submitting when they were paying $10/$30,000 for original scripts
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I know this is insulting. But most contestants and learning. So it is like getting school children to teach the class. AI learning from bad writing will teach it to write bad things.