Katie Colombus
@katiecolombus.bsky.social
Director of Audiences at Artfund. Occasional writer. Mum of 3 & English Pointer owner.
The argument here isn’t that campaigners and artists should roll over and not hold companies to account. Calling for museums to ensure their sponsors meet certain environmental criteria, for example, seems sensible. But activists need to rethink their tactics and the threshold at which they act.
July 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The argument here isn’t that campaigners and artists should roll over and not hold companies to account. Calling for museums to ensure their sponsors meet certain environmental criteria, for example, seems sensible. But activists need to rethink their tactics and the threshold at which they act.
Ultimately, this will mean less art, culture and music. Ticket prices will be higher. More people will be excluded... Less money simply equals less access, less experimentation and less creativity. Minds will become smaller.
July 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Ultimately, this will mean less art, culture and music. Ticket prices will be higher. More people will be excluded... Less money simply equals less access, less experimentation and less creativity. Minds will become smaller.
“These models & the companies behind them exploit human artists using their work without permission or payment to build commercial AI products that compete with them”... “support of these models & the people who use them rewards & further incentivizes AI companies’ mass theft of human artists’ work”
February 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
“These models & the companies behind them exploit human artists using their work without permission or payment to build commercial AI products that compete with them”... “support of these models & the people who use them rewards & further incentivizes AI companies’ mass theft of human artists’ work”