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New York Times @nytimes: A.I. Can Make Art That Feels Human. Whose Fault Is That? - The New York Times. #AI #industry40 #aiact https://t.co/CnHeoIBhq3

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A.I. Can Make Art That Feels Human. Whose Fault Is That?
"Does it feel like the future to you, or has A.I. already taken on the staleness and scamminess of the now-worthless nonfungible token? Artists have been deploying A.I. technologies for a while, after all... Still, the explosive growth of text-to-image generators such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and Dall-E (the last is named after the corniest artist of the 20th century; that should have been a clue) provoked anxieties that A.I. was coming for culture."
"Without specific prompting, these A.I. images default to some common aesthetic characteristics: highly symmetrical composition, extreme depth of field, and sparkly and radiant edges that pop on a backlit smartphone screen. Figures have the waxed-fruit skin and deeply set eyes of video game characters; they also often have more than 10 fingers, though let's hold out for a software update. There is little I'd call human here, and any one of these A.I. pictures, on its own, is an aesthetic irrelevance. But collectively they do signal a..."
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