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Maybe it’s too late to deal with the deluge of AI-slop by training people to be media savvy?

Opinion | The Internet May Look Different After You Listen to This (Gift Article) Even experts can’t tell what’s made by A.I. So what happens to trust now?

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US army is deleting images showing diversity in its data bases. Rewriting visual history, rewriting visual memory.

(S+) US-Armee: Bildhistoriker warnt vor Löschung von Diversitätsfotos durch Donald Trumps Regierung Die US-Streitkräfte entfernen Zehntausende Fotos von ihren Internetseiten – auf Anordnung der Trump-Regierung. Das könnte Illusionen im kollektiven Gedächtnis der USA erzeugen, warnt ein Bildhistoriker.

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Guardian: 38 images that changed the way we see women.

Protesters, pop stars and pioneers: 38 images that changed the way we see women (for better and for worse) Shocking, arresting and extraordinary photographs that shifted how women are seen in the world

Truly sad news. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

Duke art history professor Hans Joris Van Miegroet dies in Academy Road car crash According to the source, Van Miegroet’s next of kin, students and department chair were notified of his death. 

Professor Roy F. Baumeister is considered one of the most influential social psychologists in the world. As a "Mercator Fellow", the scientist spends several months throughout the year researching and teaching at the Research Training Group "Social Dynamics of the Self" at our very own Constructor University and the University of Bremen. The social psychologist was awarded the Distinguished Scientist Award by the Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) this year.

An exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University curated by ChatGPT may inspire curators as much as the audience in trying to make sense of it.

Museum Curators Evaluate A.I. Threat by Giving It the Reins (Gift Article) When Duke University’s art museum asked ChatGPT to organize an exhibition, it chose some unexpected artworks. But it also mistitled objects and wrote errant descriptions.

Supreme Court Rules Against Andy Warhol in Copyright Case The question for the justices was whether the artist was free to use elements of a rock photographer’s portrait of the musician Prince.

ChatGPT now takes images as input

OpenAI Announces Chat GPT-4, an AI That Can Understand Photos All aboard the hype train.