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Swap the name on a painting and does it make a difference in how you see it? Psyche digs into “prestige bias” — the well-documented tendency to value the who over the what. Apropos, the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts announces a rediscovered early Velázquez (ARTnews), and a canvas nobody was arguing about last week becomes news.
So today’s AI stories are really attribution stories. Tilly Norwood, the AI “actress,” gets her first feature — and her creators will label her as synthetic rather than pretend otherwise (Variety). And AI trained on human prose is now changing how humans write, a linguistic hall of mirrors in which nobody can say for certain whose name belongs on a sentence (The Guardian).
Getting back to the importance of names: Joe Hisaishi, who scored Studio Ghibli’s films, fills Madison Square Garden with orchestral music, and the Philadelphia Orchestra just made him composer-in-residence (The New York Times).
The highest-stakes version of this idea: the White House report alleging Smithsonian “bias” in the history it tells turns out to be riddled with errors of its own (Washington Post).
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