The National Cinema Center will change its funding rules to protect creation in the face of artificial intelligence | TF1 Info

• According to its new rules, the CNC will not financially help a work where AI replaces the author.
• Essential in the financing of cinema, the National Cinema Center has a budget of 800 million euros per year.

A change of rules to protect artistic creation. The National Center for Cinema and Animated Images (CNC) will “change the rules very soon” funding in order to protect creation in the face of artificial intelligence, announced the Minister of Culture, Catherine Pégard, Saturday May 16.

To date, the CNC has an annual budget of 800 million euros, and contributes significantly to the financing of cinema and the audiovisual sector. With these new rules, the CNC “a work that does not have an author will not help tomorrow”specified the Minister of Culture, adding that for dubbing, “only human interpretation can be supported”.

A work is a look, it is an intention, it is feelings

Minister of Culture Catherine Pégard

Protect artistic creation

While the world of cinema is currently gathered in the south of France for the Cannes Film Festival, the Minister of Culture stressed the importance of supporting artistic creation. “Creation is not reuse, it is an act of innovation, which by definition is often nourished by confrontation, by breaking with old forms”she declared during a meeting with players in the field.

She also recalled that “Artificial intelligence is a tool. It can accelerate, facilitate, enrich the making of films. But a work is a look, it’s an intention, it’s feelings.”

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She assures that this is not an intention “to prohibit the use of artificial intelligence in works”but that the CNC will refuse to help “works where AI would replace the creator, instead of providing him with additional tools. Respect for human creation applies to the sharing of value as well as to the protection of employment.”

The Minister of Culture was also due to meet her European counterparts in Cannes this Saturday to address the subject of the protection of works.