With text, image, audio, and video all becoming easier for anyone to produce through new generative AI tools, I believe people are going to need to reexamine and recalibrate how authenticity is judged in the first place. - UnDark
As creators work to develop more detailed frameworks for deepfake and AI disclosure, disciplines and modes like accessibility theory, interactive storytelling, TikTok, footnoting practices, and museum image description guidelines all have useful tools to offer. - Wired
This is the future of ChatGPT. "Watson should be bragging in its stilted voice, not fading into irrelevance. But its trajectory is happening all over again; part of what doomed the technology is now poised to chip away at the potential of popular AI products today." - The Atlantic
Annie Ernaux, writing about a French superstore, "faces the harder emotional truth: you can hate everything the superstore stands for, ... the superstore offers a real opportunity to feel the edges of your own anonymity, one you don’t get anywhere else." - Paris Review
Cultural Emergency Response, based in the Netherlands, coordinates "first responses to damage and to prevent future damage by shielding sites against threats posed by war, natural disaster and climate change." - The New York Times
“People often think about” fatigue “in terms of ‘oh, people are tired all the time.’ But fatigue is so much more pervasive and detrimental than that." - Washington Post
My plunge into the world of fantastically realistic counterfeit purses — known as “superfakes” to vexed fashion houses and I.P. lawyers, or “unclockable reps” to their enthusiastic buyers — began a couple of years earlier, in what I might characterize as a spontaneous fit of lunacy. - The New York Times
In her 1991 book The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf argued that the standards of western female beauty were used as a weapon to stagnate the progress of women. But in medieval culture, such pressures were doubly weighted, since beauty was closely aligned with morality: beauty was associated with goodness and ugliness with evil. - The Conversation
Over the past decade, our understanding of memory’s role in creativity has only grown. Researchers have linked false memories and forgetting to creative performance. And earlier this year, Schachter and colleagues published a paper that suggests that memory plays an extensive part in every stage of the creative process. - Nautilus
Zaha Hadid Architects is using AI text-to-image generators like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney to come up with design ideas for projects, studio principal Patrik Schumacher has revealed. - Dezeen
If you want to trust a prediction, you need to understand how all the computations work. For example, in health care, you need to know if the model even applies to your patient. And it’s really hard to troubleshoot models if you don’t know what’s in them. - Quanta
Is neutrality even attainable? “No journalistic process is objective,” Wesley Lowery, a former Washington Post reporter, observed in a widely discussed New York Times opinion piece from 2020. “And no individual journalist is objective, because no human being is.” Given “the failures of neutral objective journalism,” he urged another ideal: “moral clarity.” - The Atlantic
"Dignified wages and sufficient financial resources are the two most pressing areas of concern for artists," but arts organizations "overestimate the extent to which they provide critical income and support to artists." - Hyperallergic
And that how is together. "The very idea of collectively tuning in to history as it happens has been altered, as the profusion of channels and platforms now funnels audience members into self-segregated affinity groups." - Nieman Lab
