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November 2026 · 10
Camerimage opens with Artificial; Darren Aronofsky receives honorary awardHungarian AI short film ROAR wins $10,000 prize in Higgsfield contestBudapest Filmathon: participants shoot a short film in hours with AI helpPainter Radák Eszter: AI need not be excluded from paintingHungarian composers on AI: Dés László, Madarász Iván and another composerEU advocate general: Gemini may infringe press publishers' rights in Like Company caseReaders still want books written by humans, but publishing already uses AITheatre and AI: the Kolibri Theatre and the Târgu Mureș theatre studies daysFilmathon: short films written and shot with AI on 5–6 NovemberVerzió Film Festival responds to the AI era with a hand-made visual identity
October 2026 · 21
Artisjus and EJI publish AI Manifesto, ethics guidelines and transparency statementAI-generated fake of rapper G.w.M's face and voice advertises a money-winning appComenius University in Bratislava announces literary translation Olympiad with no AI allowedRoland Zoltán Csipai: a new balance is needed on AIHungary launches Popular Music Professional Forum with an AI working groupHungarian translators revisit 2023 article on machine translation as AI transforms the professionHungarian AI film reaches final among 67,000 entries at international festivalFake AI songs and images spread in the name of Gyula Deák Bill; musicians protestArt portal Artportal reportedly replaced art journalism with AI slopHungarian AI-related cultural events: House of Music concert, LAM exhibition, Katona playBen Affleck's Netflix film was made almost entirely with AI, Hungarian review saysArtisjus and EJI publish AI manifesto: over 1,000 musicians demand legislation to protect Hungarian cultureHungarian court refers third Gemini copyright case to EU judgesHundreds protest AI art exhibition, but museum does not back downKlára Dobrev: tech companies now want to take our faces and voices tooAlmostland Nemmmzeti Museum at MOME shows how AI sees the regionArtisjus and EJI publish AI manifesto as over 1,000 Hungarian musicians back call for legislationTranslated launches Lara 3, a specialised translation AI; Hungarian article asks who judges qualityLatvian filmmaker wins €400,000 Grand Prix at Kazakhstan's first AI film festivalHungarian media on AI music: non-existent singers are already reaching the chartsHungarian book trade debates AI mass-produced books, a sci-fi writer's manifesto and literary translation
September 2026 · 29
Hungarian industry debates AI in songwriting, music royalties and human creativityThe museum director and artificial intelligence: a Hungarian museum perspectiveEstonian publisher: AI will come for translators and illustrators firstEstonian actors protest AI provisions in new EU rulesAI film with András Csonka billed as the year's most bizarreCzech filmmakers criticise AI in public while secretly working with it26th Filmtettfeszt industry programme focuses on short films, AI and the film profession's reorganisationHungarian actor Csonka András appears only in AI form in new Hungarian filmUnique singer turned lawyer, now advises the music industry on AI mattersMITxStúdió launches AI Filmlab workshop seriesAI-generated books flood online marketplaces as Hungarian publishing scene reactsHungarian art discussions on AI cover painting, humor and photographyBad translations: the problem is lack of oversight, not AI; another AI-assisted Shadowrun translationFrom tapestry to goblin: with AI translation, the problem is lack of controlFirst Hungarian feature-length AI film in the works, based on a Mór Jókai novelBudapest autumn exhibition guide includes a show of AI-generated imagesX Factor contestant writes a song about artificial intelligenceAI-made ads flood Hungarian TV as agencies reshape and filmmakers fear for their workAs long as the editor holds the reins, there is no problem: AI in creative workAI Summit Budapest debates music ownership through the success of a Hungarian AI songArtisjus publishes an AI manifestoHungarian Film Week to give AI-made films a separate sectionPetition launched to protect Hungarian authors: written by a human or by AI?Vintage Galéria publishes material on Vera Molnar and generative artHUF 12 billion in royalties that nobody pays: AI is rewriting the Hungarian music industryAI artist Nóra Bereczki: sometimes AI is called a co-creator, which makes my skin crawlKreatív Online: AI Summit and industry debates on the relationship between creators and AIFaludy anniversary: article says AI falls below the level of a demanding literary translatorIndex: In Europe, text and data mining counts as fair use, the basis of AI training
August 2026 · 23
ARTtransfer Prize: this year's call is for applications on the educational use of AIProArt: AI could put nearly a fifth of music royalty revenue at riskHungarian woman's AI-made song on TikTok; AI painting exhibition at new Hungarian galleryAI replaces Csonka Pici in Erik Novák's new Hungarian film; Zsolt Pozsgai also shooting with AIIrodalmi Szigliget: literary translator says AI falls below the level of refined languageFirst Hungarian feature-length AI film to be made from Mór Jókai's science fictionSzerzői jog és generatív MI: who owns the output – Hungarian legal analysisWho owns art when algorithms create too? Questions from the AI SummitLitera literary competition does not accept AI-generated entriesProArt report: AI could cost Hungarian music industry billions of forints in lost revenueLiterary translators say AI falls short next to a translator who uses refined languageBjörn Ulvaeus: creators are AI's partnersOak Street ending's AI-made promo video mockedProArt report: AI could cost Hungarian music industry HUF 12 billion in revenue by 2028More game developers ban generative AI in contracts; one writer firedArtist Péter Weiler: AI is like a sleepwalker painting a picture2nd JFBP Japanese literary translation competition excludes machine and AI translationBudapest comics club to examine generative AI in AugustExplainer: who is the author when AI generates content under Hungarian copyright lawHungarian AI influencer Roxy Blaze gets generated music and videoPetition calls for transparent AI rules in Hungarian book marketHungarian folk-song chatbot kukoricaAIános writes song lyrics on requestHungarian publishers receive a growing number of manuscripts written with AI