what is art?
attempting to define
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what is art?
the power of art
Anu Atluru
“Where there is selection there is art.” —BH Liddell Hart.
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, i... See more
Scott Belsky • DIY Software, Where Betting Markets May Take Us, & What Makes Art
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
on AI art
Love this from Yancey Strickler:
An artist is a self-employed self-expressor.
A creator is a self-employed commercial expressor.
“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”