Escape AI and the Question of Curation in an Age of AI-Generated Entertainment​

Escape AI and the Question of Curation in an Age of AI-Generated Entertainment Photo credit: Escape AI Search 2026 This article is part of AICI’s ongoing perspectives series, exploring emerging signals in creative technology. It is intended to provoke discussion rather than predict outcomes. As generative AI continues to mature, one pattern is becoming increasingly […]

Voices in Creative Innovation: Nicolas Counil, CEO, Summer 93 Studio​

Voices in Creative Innovation: Nicolas Counil, CEO, Summer 93 Studio Tell us about your journey through the creative industry and how you became inspired by AI. I graduated as a game designer from ArtFX and moved through the industry as an employee, a freelancer, and eventually a studio owner. Along the way I experimented with […]

Research Insight: Developing Ethical & Accessible AI Storyboarding Tools for Creative Industries​

AICI presents research from Cradle BUas exploring how AI can support early-stage visual storytelling. This study examines the development of Plots, an AI-powered storyboarding tool, and highlights what creative professionals need from accessible, ethical AI solutions in video production. Insights cover usability, audience needs, affordability, data transparency, and opportunities for responsible innovation across creative workflows.

AI In Visually Based Creative Industries: When The Dust Settles

AI In Visually Based Creative Industries: When The Dust Settles Two images generated using Midjourney: a) text prompt: “Swimming in the desert sand” b) Text prompt: “Wet fire” New technologies often arrive faster than our ability to understand them, and generative AI is no exception. In just a few years, visual AI tools have disrupted […]

Crafting With Code: How AI Storyboarding Research Shapes the Future of Creative Ideation

How do small teams and students visualise ideas quickly without sacrificing creativity? Breda University’s AI storyboarding research offers one answer. Their prototype uses AI to speed up early ideation, generate consistent characters and locations and support rapid iteration, giving artists more time to focus on narrative, emotion and style. It is a glimpse into how AI is reshaping the creative process across Europe.

No, GenAI Isn’t Killing Creativity​

No, GenAI Isn’t Killing Creativity Photo credit: Henry Daubrez / Dog Studio Dept A challenge narrative in the creative industries suggests that generative AI is replacing originality or diluting the craft that underpins animation, filmmaking, design, and game development. But when we look past the headlines and into real production pipelines and potential, a different […]

What the OpenSubtitles Revelations Mean for AI in the Creative Industries

The Atlantic’s latest investigation by Alex Reisner which dives into the OpenSubtitles dataset, confirms what many creators have long suspected: a vast amount of TV and film dialogue, more than 53,000 films and 85,000 TV episodes, has been used to train major AI models without the explicit consent of writers or rights holders.

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