The robot painting arms fatally attacked the artist. Could happen.
Posted on 09/04/2022 12:52:32 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
But one entrant, Jason M. Allen of Pueblo West, Colo., didn’t make his entry with a brush or a lump of clay. He created it with Midjourney, an artificial intelligence program that turns lines of text into hyper-realistic graphics.
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.
Reached by phone on Wednesday, Mr. Allen defended his work. He said that he had made clear that his work — which was submitted under the name “Jason M. Allen via Midjourney” — was created using A.I., and that he hadn’t deceived anyone about its origins.
Some artists defended Mr. Allen, saying that using A.I. to create a piece was no different from using Photoshop or other digital image-manipulation tools, and that human creativity is still required to come up with the right prompts to generate an award-winning piece.
Controversy over new art-making technologies is nothing new. Many painters recoiled at the invention of the camera, which they saw as a debasement of human artistry. (Charles Baudelaire, the 19th-century French poet and art critic, called photography “art’s most mortal enemy.”) In the 20th century, digital editing tools and computer-assisted design programs were similarly dismissed by purists for requiring too little skill of their human collaborators.
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The robot painting arms fatally attacked the artist. Could happen.
“An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy.”
Lrn2Cod
Asimov lives. Will the Centennial Man have to give up his immortality to become a citizen?
‘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?
I’m not proposing an answer to these questions, just raising them.
Actually, it's not that bad. Complex and inclined to make the viewer contemplate it.
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.
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.
I guess it doesn’t take much to win an “art prize” these days.
‘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.
I’ll take “who is Robert Maplethorpe for 100 Alex.”
So, the real talent is with those who wrote the bot's code, not the person who typed in a series of words.
“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?
Series? This is Hugh. Not often a new cod word enters the freep lexicon
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.
Well, fake women win female competitions, too.
Guess it’s all relative these days…
“ 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.
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