2023/06/20

Sam Venis Parses Copyright and Postmodernism in the Age of DALL-E

● 20/06/2023
“It might be best understood not as incriminating some of the 20th century’s most iconic artworks, but as defending against a future where all authorship is swallowed by the digestive system of a quasi-sentient reproduction machine.”
– Writer Sam Venis, defending the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling against Andy Warhol’s Prince silkscreens (photographer Lynn Goldsmith, whose work they are based on, had sued the Warhol Foundation) as a much-needed precedent for protecting creators against generative AI platforms’ insatiable appetite for training data
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