If politicians were painters, with FDR as Titian and Churchill as Rubens, then Attlee would be the Vermeer of the profession: precise, restrained—and long undervalued. Bill Clinton might aspire to the heights of Salvador Dalí (and believe himself complimented by the comparison), Tony Blair to the standing - and cupidity - of Damien Hirst.
In the arts, moral seriousness speaks to an economy of form and aesthetic restraint ...
Tony Judt, 'Austerity', (NYRB)
Deepfake politicians may have a big influence on India’s elections
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Political campaigns are deploying AI-generated deepfake versions of
politicians to reach hundreds of millions of eligible voters in India’s
2024 election –...
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