{"id":3806,"date":"2025-05-13T11:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:06:42","slug":"on-the-frontiers-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2025\/05\/on-the-frontiers-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"On the frontiers of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-1536x2048.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-scaled.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prelude, from The Onion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-onion wp-block-embed-the-onion\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"umVdy6AmAH\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theonion.com\/pragues-franz-kafka-international-named-worlds-most-ali-1819594798\/\">Prague&#039;s Franz Kafka International Named World&#039;s Most Alienating Airport<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Prague&#039;s Franz Kafka International Named World&#039;s Most Alienating Airport&#8221; &#8212; The Onion\" src=\"https:\/\/theonion.com\/pragues-franz-kafka-international-named-worlds-most-ali-1819594798\/embed\/#?secret=zYmT2vOEhw#?secret=umVdy6AmAH\" data-secret=\"umVdy6AmAH\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now then. A few days ago, my son googled \u201cFranz Kafka Airport\u201d and here is what Google AI came up with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3-473x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3-473x1024.png 473w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3-139x300.png 139w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3.png 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being a public spirited sort, son informed Google that they might want to tweak this a wee bit. And so I had to check this afternoon for an update, and I get something new:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-4-473x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-4-473x1024.png 473w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-4-139x300.png 139w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-4.png 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, it\u2019s a start? But of course there is no \u201cBusiness Week\u201d 2009 report &#8211; that was a fiction from the Onion story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The future\u2019s so bright I\u2019ve got to wear shades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prompted by reading the always insightful&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/home\/post\/p-163476950\">Timothy Burke<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cross-posted at <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelrushton.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/michaelrushton.substack.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prelude, from The Onion: Now then. A few days ago, my son googled \u201cFranz Kafka Airport\u201d and here is what Google AI came up with: Being a public spirited sort, son informed Google that they might want to tweak this a wee bit. And so I had to check this afternoon for an update, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-issues","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-scaled.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dIW5-Zo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4615,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2025\/11\/ai-and-artists-and-rights\/","url_meta":{"origin":3806,"position":0},"title":"AI and artists and rights","author":"Michael Rushton","date":"November 20, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a recent piece at Lawfare, by Simon Goldstein and Peter N. Salib, \u201cCopyright should not protect artists from artificial intelligence.\u201d The article has the strawman subtitle, \u201cThe purpose of intellectual property law is to incentivize the production of new ideas, not to function as a welfare scheme for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;issues&quot;","block_context":{"text":"issues","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-2.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-2.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-2.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-2.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-2.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-2.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4674,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2026\/04\/ai-tricks\/","url_meta":{"origin":3806,"position":1},"title":"AI tricks","author":"Michael Rushton","date":"April 1, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"[A human named David Szalay]. 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