Andria Putkaradze has won Junior Eurovision 2024. and takes the mini crystal microphone for Georgia. Unfortunately, Spanish viewers have not seen Chloe DelaRosa win and have shown their sadness in networks, but there is also something else that has stood out on the internet: the criticism of the use of artificial intelligence.
Postcards that both the children’s festival and the adult festival use for introduce each country and representative have counted, on this occasion, with AI-generated images.
In addition to some real parts of the singer, they have also interspersed other videos created entirely by this tooland this has not gone unnoticed in networks, especially because it was blatantly poorly implemented.
Among other things, the recreation that artificial intelligence made of some of the children barely resembled themthe most blatant cases being that of Anna & Aleksejrepresentatives of North Macedonia, who looked almost nothing like those drawings, or that of the Ukrainian Artem Kotenko, who has been made blonder and taller.
But you only had to pay a little closer attention to notice serious errors, such as that. Chloe DelaRosa had only four fingers in one of the videos in which she pretended to be a mermaid; the same happened to the Georgian Andria Putkaradze, winner of Eurovision Junior 2024; and the Ukrainian Artem Kotenko was put in a warrior’s armor and placed in profile, but he was not, no matter how much he turned to the camera, the pupil of his eye did not appear..
This caused X (Twitter) to be filled with comments about the AI, and while some said they were fine with it being used in the children’s edition to take children into colorful fantasy worlds, others saw such failures as unjustifiable and criticized their failure to hire designers to do the job..
“What a picture”, “he has no forgiveness from God”, or “completely unnecessary” are comments made by tweeters who took it more as a joke, but others directly branded this practice as “terrifying”.
“What a fucking shame about AI postcards, What a lack of respect for all professionals in the industry.“, criticized one user. “There is no one to defend the postcards,” added another. “So far are we going with AI…,” mused a third.