The new bill, called the No AI FRAUD Act and introduced by Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA), would establish legal definitions for “likeness and voice rights,” effectively banning the use of AI deepfakes to nonconsensually mimic another person, living or dead. - Vice
Zuri Washington: "I was made to feel like I did something wrong in the course of this entire experience, and I know I didn't do anything wrong. I could have done things differently, perhaps. But what they did to me is like a legal version of tone-policing." - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
"British-American producer and librettist Lila Palmer (has been named) general and artistic director. Effective from 15 May, Palmer succeeds Clare Burovac, who steps down after three years in the role." - Classical Music (UK)
"The fantasy film Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, followed with 11, while the Martin Scorsese drama Killers of the Flower Moon got 10 nominations. The summer blockbuster Barbie earned eight nominations." - CNN
"Created between 1989 and 1996, Mary Miss's Greenwood Pond: Double Site is one of the very few environmental installations in the collection of any American museum." It has since deteriorated so badly that repairing it would cost $27 million, which the museum does not have. - The New York Times
"Eggers's The Eyes & the Impossible, the great adventure of a very fast dog, has received the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book. … The Randolph Caldecott Medal for outstanding illustration was given to Vashti Harrison’s Big, … (which) was a National Book Award finalist." - AP
"The sexual assault complaint by actress Hélène Darras was dismissed by a French court" due to the statute of limitations. (The alleged assault was in 2007.) "Depardieu is still fighting a separate rape charge and dozens of (other) accusations of assault." - Euronews
"The clause required all recipients of city funding to commit themselves against antisemitism as defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, (which) says it is prejudice to deny Israel’s right to exist. ... Many artists claimed that it would be used to silence those who spoke out in favor of Palestine." - ARTnews
Jewison, whose career began in Canadian television and spanned more than 50 years, was, like his close friend Sidney Lumet and a select few other directors, best known for making films that addressed social issues. The most celebrated of those was “In the Heat of the Night” (1967). - The New York Times
At the Circle Repertory Company, where she said her goal was to “confuse people,” she nurtured a new generation of writers and actors in the 1980s and ’90s. - The New York Times
Forget the death of newspapers and magazines (that’s old news about old news), we are now in the end of the era of websites and blogs. Young people crowd source their news, information, entertainment, and opinions. - Populism
The museum simply used me to avoid the scandal that would result if the public learned that many works said to be by Hopper and thus—if authentic—willed to the museum, were making their way not to the museum but to the market. - New Criterion
To be Netflix these days is to occupy the strange dichotomy of being a company that has won the war but still has plenty of battles to fight. - The Wall Street Journal
It was supposed to cost $3 million to flip the house from a crumbling ruin to a vibrant community center with musical performances and lessons, a tea room and a museum celebrating its history of hosting famous artists such as pianist Ahmad Jamal and sports figures including Roberto Clemente. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A user who listened to a show a few times, subscribed, but stopped listening would continue to count as a download indefinitely. Even better under the old rules: For people who listened to a show, dropped off for a while, but started listening again later, Apple would automatically download every show in between. - BoingBoing
