The robot painting arms fatally attacked the artist. Could happen.
The robot painting arms fatally attacked the artist. Could happen.
“An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy.”
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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.
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.
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?
Well, fake women win female competitions, too.
Guess it’s all relative these days…
Yeah what happened to, “ hey man, art is subjective... man.”
I guess it’s now not so subjective is it hipster?
So much better than most modern art.
In a few years, unless society collapses, computers will make new works in whatever style you like with quality that rivals the historical originals.
https://www.midjourney.com/home/
There is also a showcase gallery of other art it has made. Some is evil and creepy-looking, some is great. A small sample of images is visible without sign up, and millions of images are available if you pay. Examples:
In 1905, Picasso painted a self-prortait of himself sitting at the bar dressed as a harlequin in "At the Lapin Agile." When he ran short of cash he traded the painting to Frédé for a hot lunch. Frédé didn't think much of it so in 1912 he sold it for about $20 USD equiv. It last changed hands for $41 million USD.
The Au Lapin Agile cabaret, still there and still open for business
Paris' most important art show was the by-invitation-only "Salon," which habitually spurned the modern artists, so they held an exhibition all their own, which they called the "Salon des Indépendants."
To prove his point, Frédé tied a paint brush to the tail of his pet donkey, Lolo, stood it in front of an easel and canvas, then teased it with its favorite treats to encourage it to swish its tail.
An after-the-fact recreation of the event
They signed the work "J.R. Boronal" and entered it in the 1910 Salon des Indépendants, claiming it was the work of a Genoese painter and an adherent to the new "Extremist" style.
The painting received generally positive reviews and sold to a collector for 20 Golden Louies, about $1800 USD adjusted for inflation.
Frédé and his friend, Lolo.
The computer identifies as an artist.
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