Article digest · Oct 5 PM

AI, Arts & Creativity — what each story says

Every story in this issue with a short summary, so you can decide what to read before leaving the site. Summaries are written by AI (Claude) only from each publisher's own description and checked by Jev for anything not in that description. They are not full translations. Follow "Read the original" for the full story.

13 stories10 with summaries5 topics

🎨 Visual art and image generation4

UNESCO10/05 03:24 UTC

Reimagining Museums in the Age of AI: TechCul Dialogues Explores New Possibilities

The TechCul Dialogues convened its first webinar session on Museums and Collections.

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World Business Outlook10/05 08:25 UTC

How to Build an AI Art Workflow for Anime: Generate, Edit, and Animate in One Workspace

The article explores how PixAI Studio connects anime image generation, editing, character references, and video animation in one workspace.

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TechEBlog -10/04 19:21 UTC

Fascinating Look Back at AARON, the AI Computer Painter from 1996 Who Took Seven Hours to Finish One Sheet

Sally Gray flew to San Diego in December 1996 for the children's science show It'll Never Work, which sent her to the visual arts department at the University of California. She was to meet a painter named AARON, who was 23 and whose work had hung in serious galleries. AARON was a computer program, and Gray introduced him that way on purpose.

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🎵 Music2

Social Media Today10/05 01:55 UTC

Instagram adds AI songs to DMs

Users can use artificial intelligence to generate music to share with their friends. The feature echoes a similar paid Snapchat feature.

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Jamaica Gleaner10/05 05:06 UTC

'AI false positive becoming more common in music'

Dancehall veteran Papa Michigan took to social media to "challenge AI" after music distributor TuneCore flagged one of his songs as AI. He showed the studio and the musicians who played the live music on the track, and said he did not use AI at any stage of production.

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🎬 Film, video and animation4

The Cool Down10/05 09:12 UTC

Greta Garbo heirs won't rule out AI film comeback after 'startling' digital revival

Greta Garbo's descendants indicated they may be open to allowing a digital version of the actor to take on new roles.

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Business Insider10/05 05:06 UTC

Ben Affleck says he had a 'heart attack' when he first saw what AI could do — then he used it in his movie

Ben Affleck said he spent eight months shooting a large collection of footage to train existing AI models for filmmaking tasks.

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Book and Film Globe10/05 02:19 UTC

'Colossus' the Film that Foretold the AI War

The piece is set amid the current AI messaging war, in which AI is portrayed either as the best thing ever or as bringing the apocalypse.

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🏛️ Museums and cultural institutions1

Qazinform10/04 18:34 UTC

Myrzakhan Zhumakhan reveals idea behind award-winning AI comedy

Kazakh creator Myrzakhan Zhumakhan won the Best Character award at the Astana AI Film Festival for his AI-generated comedy It Was Just a Joke. He has revealed the idea behind the film, according to Qazinform News Agency.

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🇯🇵 Arts and AI in Japan2

Otonanza10/05 08:48 UTCJapanese

Manga: Illustration Work Ends Suddenly After 3 Years; Artist Finds AI Image on Client's Website

A manga by Akira Shinjo posted on Instagram, with the theme that humans are scarier than AI, has drawn attention. The outlet interviewed the author about it.

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The analysis and visual summary are in the Oct 5 PM issue. Japanese version here.