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byStikyPad ( 445176 ) writes:
Generative AI might be able to produce passable works of prose and "art," but that only shows how low our bar is for what is "art," and it's helped by the fact that art is an experience of the viewer more than a work of the creator. If Andy Warhol had never existed, and an AI generated Campbell's Soup NFTs today, they would not suddenly be worth millions. Andy's (assistant's) silkscreens are worth millions because they are associated with Andy Warhol and his "transformative" effect on culture (allegedly,
bythegarbz ( 1787294 ) writes:
but that only shows how low our bar is for what is "art,"
Are you talking philosophically or physically, because AI algorithms have been used to produced far nicer works of art than what many have called art.
Note what I said though "have been used to produce". AI isn't free thinking on its own. As it stands it is a tool. It cannot come up with the idea of Andy Warhol, but a human mind certainly could and thus could direct it to be created. Is a film director not an artists, on account of telling other people how to make his vision happen? Sure right now you can sa
byCourageous ( 228506 ) writes:
Far nicer than some today, yeah. And getting better extremely rapidly.
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