Art & Tech DeviantArt’s New A.I. Generator Angers Artists for Promising—But Failing—to Protect Creator’s Rights Hours after rolling out DreamUp, DeviantArt was forced to change its terms of use following backlash from artists. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 15, 2022
Art & Tech Meta Has Significantly Downsized Open Arts, Its In-House Art Team, as Part of Its Largest Round of Layoffs Ever At least seven Open Arts employees appear to have been among Meta's 11,000 layoffs. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 15, 2022
Art & Tech In Pictures: DALL-E Makes Its Gallery Debut in a Show Where All the Works Were Created With an Assist From A.I. Until December 29, 2022, Bitforms Gallery is hosting what it bills as 'the first DALL-E-inspired art exhibition.' By Vittoria Benzine, Nov 13, 2022
Art & Tech DeviantArt Is Selling Its New A.I. Art Tool as a Way for Creators to Take Back Control… From A.I. DeviantArt is addressing concerns about creator's rights with a tool it calls fair and responsible. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 11, 2022
Art & Tech Where in the World Are the Benin Bronzes? A New Website Offers the Most Comprehensive Assessment to Date Created in partnership with 131 museums, Digital Benin brings together information on more than 5,240 objects. By Min Chen, Nov 7, 2022
Art & Tech Make Way, DALL-E: Google Has Beta-Launched Its Text-to-Image A.I. Model The tech giant has cautiously released Imagen, a model it deems best-in-class. By Richard Whiddington, Nov 3, 2022
Art & Tech The Only Titian Painting in Switzerland Is Most Likely Not a Real Titian, According to an A.I. Art Authenticator Using A.I. tools, Art Recognition has deemed the painting, held by Kunsthaus Zürich, to be incorrectly attributed. By Vittoria Benzine, Nov 3, 2022
Art & Tech See How the Dutch Collective DRIFT Is Using Illuminated Drones to ‘Rebuild’ the Sagrada Familia, the Colosseum, and Other Landmarks The technology also can be used to help architects visualize the impact a new building might have on a cityscape. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 27, 2022
Art & Tech Shutterstock Has Inked a Deal With DALL-E’s Creator to Offer A.I.-Generated Stock Images. Not All Artists Are Rejoicing. The exclusive partnership promises A.I.-generated content to all, but little to photographers and creative contributors. By Richard Whiddington, Oct 26, 2022
Art & Tech A.I. Is Exploding the Illustration World. Here’s How Artists Are Racing to Catch Up New tools and new kinds of advocacy are popping up as A.I. art generators upend online creativity. By Zachary Small, Oct 23, 2022
Art & Tech An Astonishing New Image of the ‘Pillars of Creation’ Shows Off the Magic the James Webb Telescope Is Capable Of The Pillars of Creaton, the subject of one of art history's most beloved space images, gets an infrared makeover. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 21, 2022
Art & Tech Microsoft Is Unveiling Its Own A.I. Art Generator, Powered by a DALL-E 2 Algorithm The new program will be available through the company’s Microsoft’s Bing search engine, Edge web browser, and Designer graphics app. By Artnet News, Oct 21, 2022
Art & Tech The World’s Oldest Map of the Stars, Lost for Thousands of Years, Has Been Found in the Pages of a Medieval Parchment The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus catalogued the coordinates of the stars. Now, his efforts have finally been uncovered. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 20, 2022
Art & Tech Robot Artist Ai-Da Just Addressed U.K. Parliament About the Future of A.I. and ‘Terrified’ the House of Lords The robot is part of an experimental art project that aims to let the technology speak for itself. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 12, 2022
Art & Tech Artist Simon Denny Resurrects Dead Companies From the Dotcom Crash and Imagines How Their Logos Might Look Today Stakes in the resurrected Web1 companies have been made available for purchase via A.I.-generated NFTs. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 11, 2022