• Jonathan Hendry@iosdev.space
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    @Crampon

    AI artists are just the new version of “fractal artists” who for the most part just pick a color palette and run a Mandelbrot generator until they find an appealing image.

    It’s not nothing but it’s not going to get you very far.

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      Some AI artists actually take the time to touch up the image in something like phtoshop once they get the idea they want but there are still problems with the image.

      As the images get better though that might stop

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          @dgerard

          I had a bit making an exception for the value of “fine art” because that can get weird, like “unmade bed with a bunch of trash around it” or a signed urinal.

          But I seem to have left that part on the cutting room floor.

          If a piece of purely prompt-generated AI art hits a price like a shark in formaldehyde I strongly suspect it’ll be some kind of inorganic AI industry insider self-dealing to hype up the AI art market, similar to the big Beeple NFT sale.

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            Okay but the shark in formaldehyde is fucking awesome to see in person.

            It’s a shark! In formaldehyde!!

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              yeah, Hirst can be a bit of a hack and the names of the pieces are super cheugy but he’s definitely made some really evocative stuff

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              @V0ldek

              Yeah I’m not dismissing that. It’s a big ass shark in a tank.

              Or the guy who made a cast of his own head using his own frozen blood, that’s kept in a special refrigerated display case.

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            I think it might be worth reflecting on exactly why Fountain seems to “get weird;” it had a context and complaints about it are part of that context. I liked this recent video which explores the politics of Fountain.

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              @corbin

              I just mean “weird” in terms of “valued far higher than the average person might expect” but I’m not implying that that value isn’t merited. I’m not one to dismiss a Rothko.