EBU: Eurovision Organizers debate on the A.I. exclusion from the Contest!

The banning of the Artificial Intelligence from the Eurovision Song Contest is on the table.

The organisers of the biggest music show in the world have just started discussing the possibility of excluding A.I. produced content from Eurovision.

Jean-Philip de Tender, Deputy Director General of the European Broadcasting Union, on an interview to Bloomberg at the Edinburgh TV Festival commented that:

“What if at the Eurovision Song Contest we suddenly get an AI-created song?”

The EBU is “reflecting on how we need this in the rulebook, that the creativity should come from humans and not from machines.”

“The competition should reward “people on stage, who have achieved
something in writing a song and performing a song.”

However, in the past, the Eurovision Song Contest inspired the A.I. experiments. In 2019, partially produced by Oracle Corp. algorithms analyzed numerous past participation in order to produce the lyrics and the melody of “Blue Jeans and Bloody Tears” a duet between the 1978 Israeli winner Izhar Cohen and a pink robot.

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Source: Bloomberg

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