In a world desperate not to be fooled by artificial intelligence, a growing segment of tech start-ups are pitching themselves as a bulwark against the flood of fake content. Among them is Deep Media, a Bay Area start-up that claims it can identify AI-created images, audio and video with 99 percent accuracy. But a Washington Post review of employee LinkedIn profiles suggests the company has no PhDs, AI specialists or forensic scientists on staff. Meanwhile, OpenAI is releasing a tool designed to detect content created by its own DALL-E image generator. Ars Technica called the company's ideas "flawed."

  James Yang, illustrator/author of A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi (Viking 2021), will launch his new book, Charles & Ray: Designers at Play (Viking 2024) next week. Today Yang, who also has a busy career as an illustrator for national media programs, shares his thoughts on Mid-Century design, and the playful art of learning how to learn. Peggy Roalf:  Where did the idea of doing a book about the designers Charles and Ray Eames come from?&nbs...