Art in Meta

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

Art is about comedy, about fun, about tragedy, about emotions.

This is the brain of a butterfly undergoing metamorphosis as new neurones are born through a process called neurogenesis. Studying this process can provide valuable insights into how the nervous system is formed, as well as brain disorders, says scientist Alcalde Anton

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. In a filing submitted to the U.K. Parliament, the company said that “leading AI models” could not exist without unfettered access to copyrighted books and articles, confirming that the generative-AI industry, worth tens of billions of dollars, depends on creative work owned by other people.

AI companies have long claimed that generative AI “reads” or “learns from” these books and articles, as a human would, rather than copying them. Therefore, this approach supposedly constitutes “fair use,” with no compensation owed to authors or publishers.

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."

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

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.