| ▲ | SiempreViernes 5 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The denial is from the TV4, not the production company, and it's not so much a denial as just saying "we didn't hear that AI did it", TV4 confirms the entire final cut is gone: > Det som vi har fått från produktionen är att det har varit ett tekniskt haveri som har gjort att material som är klippt har försvunnit och att vi därför måste klippas om på nytt. Och att vi därför behöver skjuta fram premiären till 2027, säger Ludvig Ternstedt, pressansvarig för ”The challenge”. https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/31oE8A/the-challeng... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yes, but the submission article (https://swedenherald.com/article/tv4-postpones-the-challenge...) is after that Aftonbladet article, and in the submission, they deny it's because of AI and claims it's because one of the backup systems failed... > “It is not true that some independent AI agent went in and deleted the material,” says Mia Lindqvist, program director at TV4, to Sveriges Radio’s P4 Stockholm. > A backup system at the production company failed, she says. “This means they now have to edit everything from scratch.” To be honest, neither "Sweden Herald" nor Aftonbladet are "reputable sources" when it comes to reporting on news, technical details or even details at all. The latter is a tabloid in fact, and the former borderline "random online newsblog", I wouldn't lend too much credence to them. SVT is probably a more trustworthy source (in this case) and their quote is this: > “There was a technical glitch during production that caused the edited footage to be lost, so now it has to be re-edited. That’s why we need to postpone the premiere until 2027. However, it’s not true that some malicious AI agent acted on its own and deleted the footage,” writes Ludvig Ternstedt, TV4’s press officer for “The Challenge,” to SVT. - https://www.svt.se/kultur/tekniskt-haveri-tv4-skjuter-upp-re... They say "Elak" rather than "Ond", which I'd translate as "Malicious" rather than "Evil", FWIW. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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