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AI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in Germany

apnews.com/article/germany-bayreuth-wagner-festival-ai-f4300cdc0be195dabdadfa6d2ab4254c
Visitors walk the grounds of the festival opera house "Festspielhaus" in Bayreuth, southern Germany, on July 17, 2010. (Eckehard Schulz/DAPD via AP)AP NewsAI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in GermanyAn experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the German town of Bayreuth has drawn boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused.
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The AI-assisted projections […] puzzled the audience, dpa reported, with images including former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the towers of the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and a special postage stamp marking German reunification in 1990.

A slide show of unrelated, overly pathetic stuff that an intern could have glued together on her first day?

No wonder people got bored.

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