An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy.

DNYUZ ^ | 2 Sept 2022

[DUMBGRUNT]

Nothing new... What a Way to Go! Paul Newman & Shirley MacLaine 1964

The robot painting arms fatally attacked the artist. Could happen.

[knarf]

[Zack Attack]

“An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy.”

Lrn2Cod

[BlueLancer]

Lrn2Cod

[Libloather]

[ToxicMasculinity]

Asimov lives. Will the Centennial Man have to give up his immortality to become a citizen?

[ByteMercenary]

‘Artists aren’t happy’ - OK, duly noted. Now quit yer gritchin’ and do something about it. The most successful folks are the do-ers, the makers, the git-off-yer-a$$-and-do-something folks.

How about going forward you set up a separate category for computer created entries ... now, was that hard?

[noiseman]

To those who say he cheated: Is “art” defined by the merits of the result or by the effort and skill of the artist? If a very skilled and talented artist creates an ugly lump of clay is that more “art” than a stunningly beautiful sculpture carved by a computer? Also, I am sure that human artists would object on the basis that an AI routine is just copying techniques used by human artists and generating images that mimic those styles, but then again human artists have always done the same as well.

I’m not proposing an answer to these questions, just raising them.

[texas booster]

Mr. Allen’s work, “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” took home the blue ribbon in the fair’s contest for emerging digital artists — making it one of the first A.I.-generated pieces to win such a prize, and setting off a fierce backlash from artists who accused him of, essentially, cheating.

Actually, it's not that bad. Complex and inclined to make the viewer contemplate it.

[Pontiac]

To those who say he cheated: Is “art” defined by the merits of the result or by the effort and skill of the artist? I

I think that the success of Andy Warhol proves that merit has little to do with the skill or vision of an artist.

The reaction of the press and “opinion makers” has a great deal more to do with the success or failure of an artist. Or whether art will be seen by the greater public.

[Sirius Lee]

Midjourney, which uses a complex process known as “diffusion” to turn text into custom images. Users type a series of words in a message to Midjourney; the bot spits back an image seconds later.

True artists are not threatened at all. Many will in fact embrace this, just as they embraced photography to aid in their painting. And many embraced the photo medium itself as its own art form.

I can see artists using this tech to try out ideas, and then moving things around - editing, and perhaps repainting the results using their own signature techniques. How would that be any different than working from sketches or little clay dioramas?

AI can also produce very convincing music in the style of Mozart, it isn't Mozart. My own music attempts to sound like a synthesis of Debussy, Gershwin, Keith Emerson and late romanticism. If AI would only produce that sound for me, I'd be all set as I'm lazy and just want to hear the music in my head instead of working it out, but since it isn't I have to sit down and go through the painstaking process. Even one minute of music is an awful lot of black dots on a page.

[VTenigma]

I guess it doesn’t take much to win an “art prize” these days.

[EQAndyBuzz]

‘Lrn2Cod”

Give a man a cod, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to cod and he’ll change how seafood is AI generated for a lifetime.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I’ll take “who is Robert Maplethorpe for 100 Alex.”

[libertylover]

Users type a series of words in a message to Midjourney; the bot spits back an image seconds later.

So, the real talent is with those who wrote the bot's code, not the person who typed in a series of words.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings,” substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “ Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

Any of this look familiar?

[teeman8r]

Series? This is Hugh. Not often a new cod word enters the freep lexicon

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Saw it yesterday. It looks better in person.

He also entered quite a few other A.I.-generated pieces. Those were equally as cool as this one.

[Magnatron]

Well, fake women win female competitions, too.

Guess it’s all relative these days…

[bk1000]

“ How about going forward you set up a separate category for computer created entries ... now, was that hard?”

Many in the art world are leftists. The same people could create a separate category for tranny athletes rather than have them compete against girls, but they won’t.