Artists urgently need stronger defenses to protect their work from being used to train AI models without their consent.

Kachkine's method begins with a traditional cleaning of the painting, removing old varnish and previous restoration attempts to reveal the true extent of the damage. The ...

"People believe AI is sort of like a system that creates and conjures things magically with no input from users," he said.

AI slop means faster and cheaper content, and the technical and financial logic of online platforms creates a race to the ...