AI Is the New Book Burning
Hyperallergic published a commentary by author Ed Simon criticizing a reported practice by AI company Anthropic of scanning out-of-print books and then shredding them to train large language models, framing it as a form of cultural destruction. The same roundup reported that Sharmistha Ray designed vivid geometric murals for three pickleball courts in Pittsburgh as part of a project titled “Geometry of Play.” It also noted that Francisco Correa Cordero, founder of the downtown New York gallery Lubov, died on Sunday at age 37. Additional items included allegations by two Interlochen Center for the Arts alumni involving Jeffrey Epstein and a push by Eric Carle Museum staff to unionize over workplace concerns.
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