I’m not foolish or backward enough to think that AI is a passing fad. It’s a tool that we’ll see incorporated and integrated, like the synthesizers Miles invoked. But — But! — we have the power to prevent a future where the bots run the show. - The Gig
In addition to demonstrating how attackers might remove watermarks, the study shows how it’s possible to add watermarks to human-generated images, triggering false positives. - Wired
"The findings paint a picture of a cultural arts landscape plagued by: dwindling audiences and subscriptions; increased costs and shrinking budgets; declines in private funding and sponsorships; and an uncertain future in the wake of the end of government funding. … But there is hope, too." - Chicago Sun-Times
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, executive director and chief negotiator for SAG-AFTRA, knows this week is crucial for the future of entertainment. - The New York Times
"Creative Scotland will use National Lottery funding reserves to plug the gap, but said the moment was a 'tipping point' for an already fragile sector." - BBC
"The debate over the series is growing increasingly heated as it becomes a surprising transatlantic export from the more traditionally buttoned-up Brits." - Washington Post
Twelve hundred things, to be precise, including Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood and a poem by Cranogwen, the first woman to win a Welsh national poetry prize. - BBC
“It’s just a rude word for creative people. I know there are students in the audience: You don’t want to hear your stories described as ‘content’ or your acting or your producing described as ‘content.’ That’s just like coffee grounds in the sink or something.” - The New York Times
Nick Stuccio established the Philly Fringe in 1997, inspired by a visit to the Edinburgh Fringe. Over the years, the festival has grown from a five-day event to a four-week, thousand-performance bonanza (plus other presentations through the year). Stuccio will depart next April. - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
“Homework is seen to benefit time management, self-discipline, organizational skills, but there have been no studies that really have shown that homework actually either develops those skills or reinforces them." - The Walrus
"After Birmingham city council declared itself in effect bankrupt this month, there has been growing speculation about what assets could be sold to help balance its books, with concern for the Library of Birmingham and the city’s main museum and art gallery." - The Guardian
Such systems, sculpted for an industrial society, falter in the face of a postindustrial, information economy. Schools were built for a world before the vast library of human knowledge became instantly accessible at our fingertips, through the computers on our desks and smartphones in our pockets. - The Guardian
"Unlike its streamlined, efficient former self, Google Search is now bloated and overmonetized. It's harder now to find answers that feel authoritative or uncompromised. … Using Google once felt like magic, and now it’s more like rifling through junk mail, dodging scams and generic mailers." - MSN (The Atlantic)
