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So what's next? Combine this with thispersondoesnotexist? Generate fake descriptions about the art? Make a real-fake exhibition? Make a fake Wikipedia entry?

I guess at one point, all this makes it real art, where the artwork isn't the object, but the craftsmanship is. Might be interesting to put the repo on display at a gallery.

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I moved on to molecules https://thischemicaldoesnotexist.com Perhaps short stranded proteins are next

So far the best I have seen is https://thisstartupdoesnotexist.com/

> Might be interesting to put the repo on display at a gallery.

This is what artists like Marcel Duchamp did when selling “readymades” with the conceptual art movement.

Interesting. Got any good reads on this?

Sure, I think Wikipedia does a good job [0]. There's also a neat book called the "Duchamp Dictionary" [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readymades_of_Marcel_Duchamp

[1]: https://thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/the-duchamp-dictionary-...

It is arguably already "real" art. Art does not have to be physical to be "real," it can be virtual; art does not have to be made by humans to be "real;" art made by an AI is real, etc.

Hehe, is funny how some ideas are just swimming in the minds of contemporary people. This is what I'm doing with https://art42.net

make a virtual world game where everything (faces, bodies, dialogue, animations, bedrooms) are generated by GANs. Put people inside, plug a needle in them, connect them to the matrix, and profit.

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