Thank you very much.
It is really important to support the cultural sector so that certain experts within the sector, who already know a little about artificial intelligence and are able to craft models and do some fine-tuning, would be able to develop this technology while thinking about the sector's real needs. What we generally see when certain models are deployed is that they are not adapted to the sector's actual tasks. That then requires a redistribution of tasks and leads to a degradation of jobs in the cultural sector.
What we're suggesting is a rethinking of ownership and governance around models and tools. Open data and open software should be promoted wherever possible. Training tools must be provided so that people in the community would be able to use them. We also need to find, among the people from the cultural sector, super users with programming skills. They could then serve as intermediaries, in a way, since they would be able to understand, on the one hand, the highly computerized portion of the work and, on the other hand, its highly cultural portion.
Those initiatives also need to be supported. Some are under way in the sector, such as the ArtIA project, led by Sporobole, the Société des arts technologiques and Projet collectif. These initiatives require consistent and recurring funding to have a sufficient level of capacity building in the sector to work properly with this technology.