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Christie’s $432K AI Art Sale – Interview

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> So we think he deserves something in this whole situation. And then, I considered even more. What can we really do?

Maybe give him a part of the $432k?

My hot take is that the market exists for AI art. And if you were truly able to generate "Computer Art". Something that at first glance 100% of rationally thinking humans would deem a work that no human were capable of creating. It's value could be tremendous.

Maybe to photoshop who could implement a brush, or some app maker for ios or android who could take a stick figure and make into an Impressionistic painting.

I don't know. Throw out the old rules, if visual art was already tough to earn a living with before, it just got a little harder.

I haven't seen how they created a physical painting out of it, that part interests me more.

>I haven't seen how they created a physical painting out of it, that part interests me more.

I don't know about this specific one, but Dafen, China would probably blow your mind:

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-village-60-wor...

And the YC backed middleman, InstaPainting: Upload a photo and we'll get an artist to meticulously hand-paint it on canvas. Ready to ship in as little as a 7 days.

https://www.instapainting.com/blog/company/2015/10/28/how-to...

https://www.instapainting.com/

These pictures are almost certainly just inkjet prints, not paintings.

The idea of AI-generated art is a bit like the concept of sex robots. Maybe in the distant future, it's something people will be able to take seriously. Right now it's an embarrassment. Nobody with a serious grasp of what art is (in relation to humans) would be seen anywhere near this.

It just doesn't mean anything, conceptually or aesthetically. It's like computer-generated nonsense poetry. There's no way around the reality that a GAN can only produce a weak imitation of actual (human) artistic expression.

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