One estimate is that 99.9% of internet content will be AI-generated by 2030. The future, in other words, will be by bots and for bots. But isn’t that a lot of what the internet is already? - Tablet
Scientists exploring our ability to recall shapes say people can make mistakes after just a few seconds – a phenomenon the team have called short-term memory illusions. - The Guardian
After years of being thought of as rock 'n' roll adjacent,"it’s only now, at the improbable age of 81, that Ann-Margret is getting the chance to assert herself as a full-on rock ’n’ roll goddess — if a winking one." - The New York Times
"Opportunities for Latinos and other artists have been reduced," four lawmakers wrote to the DOJ. For instance, "The studio canceled the $90-million movie Batgirl in order to qualify for tax benefits. The film was to feature the first Latina superhero in the DC Comics franchise." - Los Angeles Times
Land artist "Dario Gambarin said he was inspired by Picasso’s 1907 self-portrait to create what he says is the largest portrait of the Spanish artist in the world." - The Guardian (UK)
"If you need to cover your hair for work in a fast-food restaurant, which would work better, a paper sandwich wrapper or a hamburger bun? GPT-3 went for the bun." - Fast Company
It's all too real: "Philadelphia is the poorest of the country's 10 largest cities, and its school district has long suffered from chronic underfunding. The average Philly school is also more than 70 years old — most don't have central air conditioning and were built using lead and asbestos." - NPR
MarÃa Mercedes Coroy may be a star of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but "the day after filming her final scene in Los Angeles, headed home to Santa MarÃa de Jesús, a Kaqchikel Maya town of about 22,000 at the base of a volcano in Guatemala." - The New York Times
"'It’s called stealing,' said comic strip artist Hy Eisman, who has just turned 96 and only recently discovered that Lichtenstein had reproduced one of his images in the 1960s. 'I worked like a dog on this stupid page and this guy has $20m to show for it.'" - The Observer (UK)
It just needed a couple of Brooklyn plumbers, a princess, and the Mushroom Kingdom to bring it back to life. (Super Marios Bros. generated numbers, both in the U.S. and abroad, "that one Hollywood trade news site called 'plumb insane.'") - The New York Times
Why is Matt Taibbi leaving? "Twitter seems to be in a drag-out fight with Substack, blocking users from liking, replying to, or retweeting many tweets with Substack URLs and ... limiting how you can interact with tweets from Substack’s Twitter account itself." - The Verge
In Terence Blanchard's opera Champion, opening at the Met, "there are not only new arias (and new lines for supporting characters); what will be heard ... also reflects Blanchard’s latest work when it comes to orchestral complexity and vocal elegance." - The New York Times
