Good Morning,
Three AI stories today, all pointing the same way. The Atlantic argues that the speed of the AI rollout is the strategy — it’s designed to overwhelm us (The Atlantic). The magazine also reports the anti-AI backlash is growing whether or not layoffs materialize (The Atlantic). And a new study finds that generative AI, while boosting individual output, is narrowing the diversity of creative ideas across users (PsyPost). The productivity dividend is starting to look like a creativity tax.
The plucky Washington National Opera unveils its post-Kennedy Center season — five operas on five stages, including a world premiere about Georgia O’Keeffe (The New York Times). San Francisco Arts Commission staff are publicly asking where their absent director has been (San Francisco Chronicle). And a Louvre employee was indicted for selling thousands of fraudulent tickets (ARTnews).
A Rothko sold for $86 million at Sotheby’s this week. It was bought for $6.7 million in 2003 (Wall Street Journal). Art as investment asset, not artwork. And Gen Z — the generation supposedly killing the movie theater — is going more often than boomers are (The Guardian). They see the virtues.
All of our stories below. Till tomorrow,
Doug
