Pamela Redmond stages Old Woman Naked as rebuke to AI
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Updated · The New York Times · May 9
Pamela Redmond stages Old Woman Naked as rebuke to AI
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 9
The 73-year-old writer will give the 75-minute one-woman show its fourth public performance on 17 May at Hollywood's Broadwater Second Stage, ending fully nude.
Redmond said AI scraping devastated Nameberry, the baby-naming site she co-founded, and made a three-year novel rewrite feel futile, prompting what she called an act of stealth feminism.
Best known for the novel "Younger," later adapted into a hit TV series, she hopes the play about ageing will eventually be performed by another actor, naming Jessica Lange and Whoopi Goldberg.
Is a 73-year-old's nudity a defiant feminist act or a last stand against cultural and technological erasure?
After AI devalued her life's work, can baring her body on stage reclaim the worth of human creativity?