{"id":3350,"date":"2025-01-24T13:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T04:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2025-01-24T13:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T04:31:35","slug":"re114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/report\/re114\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on the 3rd MeDi-B\u2019AI Symposium <br> \u201cHow Is the Media Landscape Changing? \u2014 AI and the Freelance Act\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3359 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/241116MeDiphoto-1024x630.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/241116MeDiphoto-1024x630.png 1024w, https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/241116MeDiphoto-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/241116MeDiphoto-768x473.png 768w, https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/241116MeDiphoto-1536x945.png 1536w, https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/241116MeDiphoto-2048x1260.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, November 16, 2024, the third MeDi-B\u2019AI Symposium, titled \u201cHow is the Media Landscape Changing? \u2013 AI and the Freelance Act,\u201d was held at the Daiwa Ubiquitous Computing Research Building on the Hongo Campus. The symposium focused on the newly enacted \u201cAct on Ensuring Proper Transactions Involving Specified Entrusted Business Operators,\u201d known as the \u201cFreelance Act,\u201d as well as the changing labor conditions in the media industry due to advances in AI technology. The aim was to reflect on the human rights of media workers and the state of Japan\u2019s media culture. The symposium was organized by the <a class=\"ex_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medi-gender.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MeDi\u00a0<\/a>(Media and Diversity Forum) and co-organized by the\u00a0<a class=\"ex_link\" href=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B\u2019AI Global Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium featured a diverse range of speakers, including practitioners from the media and entertainment industries, as well as lawyers, legal scholars, AI researchers, and media scholars. These experts engaged in discussions on the future of media culture and the structure of the industry in the AI era.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium highlighted how issues, such as gender disparity, gender inequality, and harassment, have resurfaced in the media industry alongside the reorganization of the labor market and changes in labor conditions resulting from recent advancements in AI technology. It was emphasized that, in order to produce creative media content, it is essential to confront the power imbalances and structural problems within the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Text: Honoka Kato (Project Researcher)<br \/>\nPhoto: Izumi You (Master\u2019s Student)<br \/>\nEnglish proofreading: David Buist (Project Senior Specialist\uff09<\/p>\n<p>*This article is reposted from the University of Tokyo Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/research\/20250116research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, November 16, 2024, the third MeDi-B\u2019A<\/p>\n<div class=\"continue-reading-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/report\/re114\/\" class=\"continue-reading\">Continue Reading<i class=\"ion-ios-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,97,9,337,10,338,104,15,105,22],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-report","tag-ai","tag-culture","tag-diversity","tag-freelancer","tag-gender","tag-law","tag-medi","tag-media","tag-symposium","tag-tech"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}