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Art in Meta
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
art works better as a way of seeing than as a way of showing. The arts can document and sometimes pre-empt changes in how people view the world around them, pointing to multiple perspectives or clashes, deconstructing and reconstructing, taking people up to the cosmic or down to the microscopic. They can do this in compelling ways that reach large
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The tech companies have long argued that training is fair use, similar to printing quotations from books when discussing them or writing a parody that uses a story’s characters and plot.
When I share a quote it usually ties back to the author. Quote-sharing becomes an act of author evangelicanism, where each share has the potential to gain the author another fan, follower or reader.
Generative AI LLM models steal those original works & passes it off as its own.
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.
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Who says tech isn’t art?
If the AI companies need to compensate the millions of authors whose work they’re using, that could “kill or significantly hamper” the entire technology, according to a filing with the U.S. Copyright Office from the major venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has a number of significant investments in generative AI.
Kit Williams, who could come across upon first meeting like one of the timid creatures of the forest he so delighted in painting, wasn’t quite what he seemed. His psyche harbored unexpected seams of stubbornness, pride, competitiveness, and even showmanship.
One of Cattelan's peers, Georgian performance artist David Datuna, found nutritional value in the work: At Art Basel Miami Beach, he untaped the banana and ate it in an artistic intervention he titled "Hungry Artist."