Art in Meta

copyrighted material being hoovered into large language models to help AI chatbots simulate human speech. If you’re a screenwriter and would like to see which of your work has been appropriated to aid in the effort, click here; he has assembled a searchable database of nearly 140,000 movie and TV scripts that have been used without permission.

On the Trail of the Golden Owl was inspired by Kit Williams’ earlier groundbreaking work Masquerade, a lavishly illustrated publication containing clues to a buried golden hare

There’s a concept in the open-source community known as benevolent dictator for life which describes a developer’s willingness to distribute his work for free while retaining exclusive rights and control over it, but whose actions must be orientated toward helping the community.

“One can understand that at this time preoccupations are elsewhere,” begins a pamphlet circulated around Paris in late February, 1848.

Mercy is one of the higher values. Like forgiveness and compassion and love, mercy depends on much more than the letter of the law. It is imaginative. It imagines the situation of the one who is in need of mercy - even if that person doesn’t know it.

On a gray Saturday morning in March of 1976, two nattily dressed London sophisticates left the city, driving west toward the decidedly unfashionable environs of rural Gloucestershire. One of the two was Eric Lister, owner of a quirky art gallery called the Portal. The other had a much higher profile. At age 42, Tom Maschler was already something of... See more