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Artists across industries are strategizing together around AI concerns

TechCrunch

As creative industries grapple with AI’s explosion into every artistic medium at once, separate calls from artists warning the world to take action before it’s too late are starting to converge.

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ChatGPT Starts Blocking Studio Ghibli-Style Images After Trend Goes Viral

Futurism

Even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman join in on the fun, tweeting a joke about the trend and changing his profile picture to a Ghibli-style image of what appears to be himself, done up to look like one of the young, wide-eyed protagonists in the studio's movies. Many have uploaded personal photos to be redrawn into a still from a Ghibli movie.

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SAG Awards 2025: How and when to watch Hollywood’s most heartfelt tribute to actors

Fast Company Tech

The Screen Actors Guild Awards, hosted by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), is set to take place tonight (Sunday, February 23) at 8 p.m. She later had a change of heart and saw the bigger picture. Its almost time for the most heartfelt accolades of Hollywoods award season.

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You, too, can have a Jack Dorsey-like block profile picture

The Verge

My friend said this picture makes me look like Hide the Pain Harold. Cubism is the one where artists just stick random images on cubes, right? Oh, who am I kidding — just make it your Twitter profile picture, and change your display name to some geometry-shaped pun. I’m pretty sure that’s right.)

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Artists are playing takedown whack-a-mole to fight counterfeit merch

The Verge

There are all sorts of obstacles that are thrown up in front of artists’ Matt Buchholz’s artwork is usually a hit during the holidays. It’s been a little like whack-a-mole,” says Aaron Reynolds, the artist behind Effin’ Birds, a comic series of swearing birds. then complain to the original artist. And that’s just Facebook.

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OpenAI’s DALL-E AI image generator can now edit pictures, too

The Verge

DALL-E 2 features a higher-resolution and lower-latency version of the original system, which produces pictures depicting descriptions written by users. The original DALL-E, a portmanteau of the artist “Salvador Dalí” and the robot “WALL-E,” debuted in January of 2021. It also includes new capabilities, like editing an existing image.

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20+ of the best book deals in the Amazon Big Spring Sale

Mashable Tech

Grabbing this title now is a great idea since you'll want to read Project Hail Mary before the motion picture starring Ryan Gosling hits theatres in 2026. The paperback version is on sale ahead of Amazon's big sale for just $13.98, down from the standard price of $20. at Amazon $27 Save $15.07

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