Artists Shouldn’t Need a Smoke Alarm for AI Scraping
A new tool can warn artists when their work appears in public AI datasets. Its very existence shows how badly online consent has failed.
A new tool can warn artists when their work appears in public AI datasets. Its very existence shows how badly online consent has failed.
Smart glasses did not invent public recording. They removed the gesture that tells everyone else a camera is pointed at them—and our rules have not caught up.
Artificial intelligence may live in the cloud, but the infrastructure behind it is colliding with electrical grids, local communities and an uncomfortable question: who pays for all that power?