The most common qualms, BISG reports involve “inadequate controls around the use of copyrighted material (86 percent), hallucinations (84 percent), AI-generated books flooding platforms (81 percent), and in accurate, false, or biased training data (79 percent). -Publishing Perspectives
“Outside, the headlines about Britain are all gloom and doom. Yet Frieze is more energetic than it has been for several years,” said Lars Nittve, the head of the investment committee at Arte Collectum, a $60-million Swedish-based art fund, browsing the fair for potential purchases. - The New York Times
The speed with which the president is moving ahead with building the ballroom, which is expected to cost more than $200 million and to be privately funded, caught the architecture profession by surprise. - The New York Times
With then-business partner Nicholas Grimshaw, he rode Britain’s “high-tech Modernism” wave of the 1970s to prominence. But he tired of that movement’s austere aesthetic and went on to design landmarks of London’s postmodern architecture such as the headquarters of TV-am and the intelligence service MI6. - The New York Times
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s leader, had proclaimed it “the most powerful imagination engine ever built.” The truth is that using it made me want to run, screaming, into the ocean. - The New York Times
“You hold a steady job in an arts occupation, (statistical) surveys … will find you. But if you’re juggling gigs, hustles, caregiving, and a nonlinear career? You’re likely to slip through the cracks. … Fortunately, we can now draw on a new resource that captures this hidden population.” - SMU DataArts
“The museum’s president and director, Laurence des Cars, is expected to respond to questions from the senate’s culture committee on Wednesday afternoon, three days after the seven-minute robbery that targeted France’s crown jewels” — whose value is estimated by the museum’s curator at €88 million ($102 million). - The Guardian
“(The elite university in Nashville) has been evaluating the area around Fifth and Mission streets for its planned satellite campus, and the 5M mixed-use project — including the Chronicle's historic headquarters building at 901 Mission St. — could be the desired destination.” - San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo!)
“The private, for-profit (Academy of Art University) has had a longstanding presence in the city's core with dozens of buildings ranging from housing to academic uses. ... It has expanded rapidly in recent decades, at times drawing criticism for its aggressive growth and zoning disputes with city planners.” - San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo!)
The latest round of layoffs at the station includes several of its most popular music hosts. KCRW let go of 20% of its staff during a COVID-related budget crisis in 2020, and it had a big round of voluntary buyouts early last year. - Variety
AFM Local 802 and the Broadway League (representing producers) go into mediation on Wednesday, and Local 802 is prepared to strike immediately if no deal is reached by Thursday morning. The League and Actors’ Equity negotiated an agreement last weekend, but Equity could still strike in solidarity with the musicians. - Playbill
“If all potential legal cases are to proceed against An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, it may not be able to continue as a going concern ‘to govern our beautiful art form’. That is the warning sounded by directors of Irish dancing’s largest and oldest governing body.” - The Irish Times
Naghma, despite the popularity she achieved early in her career, faced many difficulties in conservative Afghan culture even before the rule of the Taliban. In the 1990s, mujahideen rebels murdered her sister and she fled the country. She’s been a cultural treasure for the Afghan diaspora ever since. - The New York Times
