For as long as technologies of writing and reading have been extending the mind, writers have offered strategies for managing that interaction and given advice for thinking properly in media environments that appeared hostile to ‘proper’ thought. - Aeon
Critics of these systems include artists, coders, legal experts, and even some of the engineers who build them. They argue that the systems that make this possible and art-generating AIs, all ingest content without securing permission from its creators. - The Wall Street Journal
The complaint, which the Florida-based news outlet The Floridian published a copy of online, said that the foundation used “Christmas-themed promotional materials” that did not give advance notice of the “sexually explicit nature” of the show’s contents. The materials said all ages were welcome. - The Hill
In the months since its debut, ChatGPT has become a global phenomenon. Millions of people have used it to write poetry, build apps and conduct makeshift therapy sessions. And it has set off a feeding frenzy of investors trying to get in on the next wave of the A.I. boom. - The New York Times
About a week ago, on January 27, the spacious four-bedroom co-op was quietly listed for sale. The home—located in one of the “most prestigious residential addresses in New York City,” according to the listing agent, Sotheby’s International Realty—comes with a price tag of $7.5 million. - Artnet
Since the Metropolitan Opera announced its plans to change the policy towards the repertory and schedules to remedy a difficult financial situation the institution is facing after the pandemic, the audience simply cannot stop expressing displeasure with General Manager Peter Gelb’s new strategy. - OperaWire
My point is, we’re moving away from Eurocentric to multiracial, so art needs to reflect that. And we need stories. Stories are a structure or a vessel for us to understand ourselves. We love narrative. The question is, do the stories always have to center around Europeans’ way of seeing the world? - Fjord Review
“It’s a deliberate policy to destroy the historical memory of the Ukrainian people,” said Alexsandr Symonenko, a Ukrainian archaeologist and Scythian specialist at Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences. - New York Post
The avid cinema-goers line up around the block and pack movie theatres for hours, until well after midnight - all for a new action thriller starring 57-year-old Shah Rukh Khan, who came out of retirement to, essentially, save Bollywood. - The Guardian (UK)
Li: "The reason I’m so curious about the concept of the quintessential American writer is because I am not one, although my coming of age as a writer happened in America. So I’m curious about how you define an American writer." - The Paris Review
"Should they be returned to the streets, or destroyed? Should they be contextualized and put on display? Or perhaps the bronze should be melted down, with the hundreds of tons of marble and granite put to use for better purposes?" - El País
The singer was 85. She nearly gained stardom in the early 1960s, and then jazz lost its popularity. She found fame again in Japan, and then in the U.S. in 2001 after a chance NYT review brought her to a new audience. - The New York Times
"If it is not yet clear how blocks of flats or schools or shopping centres near you might be changed by this revolution, the energy and invention behind it are undeniable" - and so is the social transformation of the profession. - The Observer (UK)
V.V. Ganeshananthan, whose book Brotherless Night was on the cover of the New York Times Book Review a few weeks ago: "Another writer said, 'Have you considered writing the book in order?' And I thought, that’s that’s a good idea. I should try that." - Slate
