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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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Excellent
Looks like it could have used the lyrics from my namesake song to turn it into the code:
We’ve taken care of everything
The words you read
The songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure
To your eye...
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls.
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls...
“ You can tuna A.I. but you can’t tuna cod”
Gratuitous REO Speedwagon reference. We’ll played.
That would not surprise me a bit.
I'm not sure where my mom got her Dalis, but it could have been the same gallery.
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A giant hobbit house???
...the same gallery.
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If it was Vegas, it likely was. IIRC, there were exclusive territory clauses and it was sort of a franchise.
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