Good Morning,
AI showed up everywhere today — and not as a feature. A Stanford senior describes a campus where ChatGPT has become the medium of student life, from history papers to dating (The New York Times). Another professor watches students photograph exams mid-test, feed them to an LLM, then copy machine-written answers into the blue book (The New Critic). Meanwhile, the world’s first AI museum is opening in LA, marketing “phantasmagorical” generated wonder as the new immersive (The Conversation).
The counterweight: humanities enrollments are climbing as tech jobs evaporate (Irish Times). The students who were told AI made them obsolete are now being told their human-ness is the asset.
Two more: Peter Gelb — $1.2M salary, who manages 3,000 employees, 15 unions, and a 144-member board — says he won’t retire because he can’t imagine life without work (The New York Times). And the head of French TV’s Canal+ vows to blacklist 600 movie artists who signed a petition against the company’s right-wing billionaire owner (The Guardian). Not all pressure on culture comes from algorithms. All of our stories below.
See you tomorrow.
Doug
