what is art?

attempting to define

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

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

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the essence of art…

Love this from Yancey Strickler:

An artist is a self-employed self-expressor.

A creator is a self-employed commercial expressor.

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Anu Atluru

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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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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“I think that may be the highest purpose of any work of art, to inspire someone else to save themselves through art. Creating creates creators.”

― Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)

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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

The more choices someone makes in a work’s creation, the more likely it is to be viewed as making art.

Lincoln Michel • Art Without Intention

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