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Thierry Ehrmann, the founder of Artprice, has entered the argument over AI and writing with a book and a claim about authorship. In a statement issued on October 26, he argues that an author can direct an AI-assisted work while remaining responsible for its meaning. His example …
When The Godfather opened on March 24, 1972, it looked like a film about old men. Patriarchs, consiglieri, capos who had spent decades learning whom …
In Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972), small details often say more than long conversations. A glance, a closed door, an unfinished sentence, …
Short answer: yes. Automattic still employs thousands of people, still owns WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Pocket Casts and Beeper, and still …
I’m on the side of privacy. I think data brokers are a menace, and when Ireland fined Meta €1.2 billion in 2023 I didn’t lose a minute’s sleep. If …
Everything in this picture came out of the same hill. The vines grow in a thin skin of clay over limestone, the houses are cut from that limestone, …
The studio waited two weeks to say anything. Kusama died on August 14 in a Tokyo hospital, and the announcement came on the 27th, by which point the …
Pink News has proposed cutting up to eleven staff, its second round of redundancies this year, and the stated reason is a change in how the platform …
Three years into the argument about AI and content, publishers have sorted themselves into two strategies. One camp licenses. The other sues. A few …
The first thing everyone says is that it’s smaller than they expected. Roughly half a metre of bronze, set in a stone niche on the corner of Rue de …
