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• A short documentary about art’s colonial legacy.

“In the scales of knowledge, all the museums in the world will never weigh so much as one spark of human sympathy.”

• 26 guiding principles for querying large language models.

“Clearly state the requirements that the model must follow in order to produce content, in the form of the keywords, regulations, hint, or instructions.”

• An article about what AI tells us about formulaic human art.

“When a TikTok user in April posted an A.I.-generated song in the style (and voices) of Drake and the Weeknd, critics and copyright lawyers bayed that nothing less than our species’s self-definition was under threat, and a simpler sort of listener was left to wonder: Was this a ‘real’ song? (A soulless engine that strings together a bunch of random formulas can pass as Drake — hard to believe, I know….)

An apter question is: Why is the music of these two cocksure Canadians so algorithmic to begin with? And another: What can we learn about human art, human music, human writing, now that the good-enough approximations of A.I. have put their bareness and thinness on full display?”