Tag: Student
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BCAS secured €30M to strengthen its position in flexible student financing
Spanish startup BCAS, focused on flexible education financing, has closed a €30 million debt round led by MyInvestor. The funding will be used to expand operational capacity, introduce instalment-based financing at affordable interest rates, and increase access to education funding for students. Founded in 2021 by Bosco González del Valle, Javier Ausín, and Manuel Avello, read more
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Alaska College Student Arrested for Eating AI Artwork Speaks Out: ‘AI Chews up and Spits out Art’ Made By Other People.’
The University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate arrested earlier this week for eating an AI-generated artwork on view in an MFA exhibition has since addressed his controversial meal. Graham Granger, a student in the school’s film and performing arts program, was charged Wednesday with class B misdemeanor criminal mischief for tearing up a set of Polaroids read more
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Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest
Artists and other creative people (not to mention, ahem, journalists) have been deeply concerned about the way that their work has been hoovered up by tech companies to fuel artificial intelligence–powered image and text generators. In 2023, several digital artists filed a class action lawsuit targeted at Stability AI, Midjourney, and the image-sharing platform DeviantArt, read more
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