aceSpeaking a thousand pictures: How GenAI is changing the business of art
Small-brand commissions are drying up, briefs are shrinking, and artists face growing pressure to prove their work is human-made. Simultaneously, they have to worry about their art being used to train AI models or being reproduced without their consent. Bengaluru: In 1935, the German philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin posed a question about art in an age of rapidly advancing technology. In his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, he argued that even the most perf
An AI-led filmmaking company's chief executive said it delivered animation shots once quoted at a year of work in six weeks, at about 35% lower cost.
The evidence is mostly interviews with about a dozen artists and a few business executives, and the court ruling cited is interim, by a single judge, with trial pending.
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