Good Morning,
Three stories today circle a backlash to AI: when the machines flood the zone, people reach for what they can hold. A wave of artists is now producing deliberate “anti-slop” — work whose entire value proposition is that a human sweated over it (The Guardian). The Walrus argues the real scandal of that prize-winning AI story wasn’t the machine but how fast everyone rushed to defend or dismiss it, instead of asking what we actually want from art (The Walrus). Meanwhile in downtown LA, Dataland opens as the first museum built entirely around AI-generated art (Los Angeles Times).
The counter-move is showing up at the cash register. Tired of streaming’s churn, audiences are buying physical media again (ABC); vinyl keeps climbing, even as the making of records turns out to be an environmental mess (Yahoo).
Elsewhere, a group of states is lining up to sue over the Paramount-Warner deal (Gizmodo), and an artist recounts the Kennedy Center meltdown from the inside (NPR). And the Tonys crowned Schmigadoon best musical and Liberation best play (The New York Times).
All of our stories below.
Doug
