Sam · The Verge
Your article about AI doesn’t need AI art
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A New Yorker profile of Sam Altman was accompanied by controversial artwork.
Key facts
- The New Yorker ’s digital design director, Aviva Michaelov, says that Szauder sent around 15 different sketches to senior art director Supriya Kalidas, including the one that eventually led
- The illustration for The New Yorker ’s profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare
- It’s also not the first time The New Yorker has commissioned David Szauder to create an AI animated illustration
- A New Yorker profile of Sam Altman was accompanied by controversial artwork
Summary
The illustration for The New Yorker ’s profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. And at the bottom, there’s a disclosure that might spook many illustrators far more: “Visual by David Szauder; Generated using A.I.” Szauder is a mixed-media artist who has been working with collage, video, and generative art processes that predate commercial AI tools for over a decade, and was recently teaching art and technology at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. What does it say for The New Yorker, one of America’s most prestigious magazines, to adopt generative AI? Yet it’s still, in their opinion, a waste of an opportunity.