Even amid widespread vocal pushback against generative artificial intelligence, industry leaders say its use in film and TV is slowly becoming mainstream. More filmmakers are using evolving AI tools, and studios are partnering with AI companies to explore how they can use the technology in content creation. - NBC News
Indeed, many of them report that they’re having larger audiences and healthier finances than before COVID. The AJC reached out to ten orchestras of various sizes throughout the state to find out how they’re doing, and here are the responses. - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Who, exactly, owns the outputs of a generative model? The user who crafted the prompt? The developer who built the model? The artists whose works were ingested to train it? Will the social forces that shape artistic standing—critics, curators, tastemakers—still hold sway? Or will a new, AI-era hierarchy emerge? - MIT Technology Review
Plenty of people still enjoy traditional books and periodicals, and there are even readers for whom the networked age has enabled a kind of hyper-literacy; for them, a smartphone is a library in their pocket. For others, however, the old-fashioned, ideal sort of reading has become almost anachronistic. - The New Yorker
Like most people who work with words for a living, I’ve watched the rise of large-language models with a combination of fascination and horror, and it makes my skin crawl to imagine one of them writing on my behalf. But there is, I confess, something seductive. - The New York Times
Calder Gardens will be a stylized oasis with woodlands, wildflower-filled prairie meadows, and rivers of grasses running through it — all carefully laid out by landscape designer Piet Oudolf to maintain visual interest year-round. (However, it will probably take two years for the plants to grow into Oudolf’s vision.) - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
“The problem was that authorities did not check the video for historical accuracy. In a scene of Parisians jubilantly celebrating the 1944 end of Nazi occupation, a soldier wearing a German-style helmet can been seen in the crowd. In the background, someone on a balcony waves the flag of Japan.” - Artnet
“They will also be paid more for their appearances outside of cheering for the Dallas Cowboys. It’s a happy ending to a grueling season and a key milestone in the dancers' long fight for fair pay.” - Time
Sunset Boulevard has seen its weekly gross up more than $400,000 to $1.7 million. Purpose and Oh Mary! had grosses rise by well over $100,000, a large sum for spoken-word plays; Maybe Happy Ending got a smaller boost. Real Women Have Curves, on the other hand, is now closing early. - The Hollywood Reporter
Derek Dixon, who appeared in 85 episodes of Perry’s BET series The Oval, alleges that Perry used his power to assault, harass, and exploit Dixon, promising career advancement and then using threats of professional retaliation to keep Dixon quiet. Perry maintains that Dixon has invented the entire thing to extort Perry. - AP
“As the conflict with Israel continues to escalate, Iran has closed its museums and cultural heritage sites until further notice, according to local news reports. Officials have also ordered valuable artefacts across the country to be relocated to secure storage facilities.” - The Art Newspaper
“His technique was sufficient but rarely dazzling, and his tone was full and generally attractive but not especially lustrous. ... What attracted listeners was his musicianship — his distinctive mixture of welling songfulness and formal rectitude, his willingness to take listeners deep into the heart of anything he played.” - The Washington Post (MSN)
In this case — the Montreal-based troupe The 7 Fingers, rehearsing in New York for a show opening in two days — the injury didn’t happen to the aerialist making a daring drop from a trapeze to the ground. It happened to one of the guys on the ground catching her. - The New York Times
More than half (54%) of people get news from networks like Facebook, X and YouTube - overtaking TV (50%) and news sites and apps (48%), according to the Reuters Institute. - BBC
A couple visiting the Palazzo Maffei museum in the Italian city of Verona was caught on closed-circuit TV sitting on artist Nicola Bolla’s Swarovski-encrusted “van Gogh” chair. The piece folded under the man’s weight, and the pair promptly ran from the room - ARTnews
