- Chinese State Media’s Global Influence(r) Operation
To execute this strategy, China has assembled a collection of pro-CCP content creators, including its own state media employees moonlighting as lifestyle influencers, foreigners paid by the CCP to toe the party line, and even members of Chinese ethnic minority groups used in domestic information operations. In total, we have found more than 200 such influencers. Partly owing to their sheer numbers, we have classified them according to their backgrounds, target audiences, and the particularities of their recruitment and management. China’s propaganda influencers fall into three broad categories: “honeypots,” “peers,” and “veiled CSM reporters.” - Same targets, new playbooks: East Asia threat actors employ unique methods
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- FDR master speech files 1898, 1910-1945
“My friends, judge me by the enemies I have made.” - How does generative artificial intelligence impact student creativity? – ScienceDirect
- Is AI Art Real Art?. Millions of images generated with code… | by Amelia Winger-Bearskin | OneZero
Duchamp’s ready-made pieces brought these objects to view in a new way, and caused audiences to ask new questions, such as: Is this even art? What am I looking at? What did the artist actually do here? What is “a work of art” anyway? And should we not maybe restrict the definition a bit? - The Art of Randomness: Sampling and Chance in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction · Issue 6.4, Fall 2024
- Article 5: Prohibited AI Practices | EU Artificial Intelligence Act
the placing on the market, the putting into service or the use of an AI system that deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques, with the objective, or the effect of materially distorting the behaviour of a person or a group of persons by appreciably impairing their ability to make an informed decision, thereby causing them to take a decision that they would not have otherwise taken in a manner that causes or is reasonably likely to cause that person, another person or group of persons significant harm - Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony – Wikipedia
has “properly declared these to include all forms of writing, printing, engraving, etching, &c., by which the ideas in the mind of the author are given visible expression.” - How to get a perfect face swap using Midjourney AI | ZDNET
Please note that this set of images was most definitely not my first “roll” on Midjourney. Expect to do five, 10, even 20 different tries before you get something you like. - Technology, Oil Painting, and Tim’s Vermeer | Marc Dalessio
- Damien Hirst’s Apprentices vs. Renaissance Workshops | MyArtBroker | Article
- Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. | 188 U.S. 239 (1903) | Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center
It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained only to the law to constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial illustrations, outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits. At the one extreme, some works of genius would be sure to miss appreciation. Their very novelty would make them repulsive until the public had learned the new language in which their author spoke. It may be more than doubted, for instance, whether the etchings of Goya or the paintings of Manet would have been sure of protection when seen for the first time. - Camera Obscura — Jane Morris Pack
I often work with second term students on special projects studying master works. After seeing and studying that Rome exhibition I suggested we put our energies into discovering what makes Vermeer unique. His subject matter is neither original nor particular to him. His power lies in his method. My students and I experimented with the idea proposed by Steadman that Vermeer in some way worked directly from the image projected. The first step was building our own camera obscura which would enable us to trace the steps of Vermeer. I had no idea what we would discover but I was sure we would see a new world.