A Photographer Submitted an A.I.-Generated Image to a Prestigious Art Competition to Be ‘Cheeky.’ It Won a Top Prize Anyway

If at first you succeed, try and try again to fail. This is the perverse lesson that has emerged from Boris Eldagsen’s attempt to refuse a prestigious photography award he won with an image he created by using A.I. image generator DALL-E 2. Concerned by the unchecked proliferation of A.I.-generated images, Eldagsen, a veteran Berlin-based…

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Why ‘Succession’ Is Such Incredible Television

Sunday night’s stunning episode of HBO’s “Succession” featured a breathtaking sequence of events: The four Roy siblings — Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Connor (Alan Ruck) — reacting to and processing the news that their father, media mogul Logan Roy (Brian Cox), had suddenly died. It made for astonishing television…

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