Art Review
Refik Anadol’s Soulless AI Tribute to Leo Messi
By channeling a language as viscerally human as football, Anadol exposed both the calculated hostility of artificial intelligence and the frigidity of the fine art world.
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News
New Meta AI Feature Raises Photo Privacy Concerns
Facebook is asking users to grant access to their camera roll, though the company denies that it is using the images to train AI technology.
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Thousands Call on Christie’s to Nix AI Art Auction
An open letter alleges that many of the artworks in the auction were “created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license.”
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AI Art With Human “Expressive Elements” Can Be Copyrighted
The US Copyright Office issued its latest findings on the controversial question of who owns artworks created using generative tools.
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Ai Weiwei Speaks Out On DeepSeek's Chilling Responses
The Chinese-owned AI chatbot’s refusal to answer questions about the dissident artist and activist is “quite telling,” Ai said in a statement to Hyperallergic.
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"Who Is Ai Weiwei?" DeepSeek Refuses to Say
The AI’s responses to queries related to dissident artists and artistic freedom were terse and biased in favor of the Chinese government.
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25K+ Artists Decry “Unlicensed Use of Creative Works” to Train AI
Painters Amoako Boafo and Cecilia Vicuña and photographer Lynn Goldsmith are among the signatories of a new petition.
Art
David Bayus’s AI-Infused Gender Burlesque
The artist unspools a playful and dark-edged narrative that refracts art deco and noir melodrama through the late-modern styles of video games, manga, and fantasy.
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Who Owns the Copyright for an AI-Generated Artwork?
Jason M. Allen’s lawyer argues that he prompted Midjourney 624 times to create an award-winning artwork, a process requiring “more than the bare minimal mental effort.”
Books
Two Books That’ll Make You Feel Bad for AI
A small press is publishing innovative narrative works that travel across genres, including autotheory, criticism, experimental poetry, and documentary.
Art
School Is Back in Session, and So Are AI Art Classes
New university programs are incorporating generative tools into studio art courses while attempting to address the murky ethics of the technology.
News
Judge Says Artists Can Sue AI Companies for Using Their Work
While claims of unjust enrichment and breach of contract were thrown out in the landmark lawsuit, the copyright infringement complaints were deemed plausible.