what is art?

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Christoph Niemann • Sketched Out: An Illustrator Confronts His Fears About A.I. Art

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Tolstoy, in What is Art?

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced, or is producing, the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression… Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea

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Beuys believed everybody was an artist. He once said "every sphere of human activity, even peeling a potato can be a work of art as long as it is a conscious act," suggesting that every decision should be thought out and attempt to make or contribute to a work of art which in the end is society.

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almost everything mimics or remixes what already existed in culture (or what already exists on the internet). All those famous names of artists and writers you know were not constantly making original choices filled with divine inspiration denied to AI. Much like how Roger Federer won only 54% of points across all the professional matches he played... See more

Sorry Ted Chiang, humans aren't very original either

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on AI art

GenerativeAI can conjure up a tree if you ask for one, but it will come from the commonality of attributes across the trees in the model’s training data. Under the hood, large language models (LLMs) and generative media models are trained on massive amounts of data to help predict a sequence of words or pixels based on the prompt you provide. So,... See more

Scott Belsky • DIY Software, Where Betting Markets May Take Us, & What Makes Art

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the power of art