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‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled (www.theguardian.com)

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Thousands of artists are urging the auction house Christie’s to cancel a sale of art created with artificial intelligence, claiming the technology behind the works is committing “mass theft”.

The Augmented Intelligence auction has been described by Christie’s as the first AI-dedicated sale by a major auctioneer and features 20 lots with prices ranging from $10,000 to $250,000 for works by artists including Refik Anadol and the late AI art pioneer Harold Cohen.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Both are in there, and neither of those are wrong. Generative AI does have serious limitations when it comes to detail control, and it's also used a lot by people (not necessarily executives) who don't respect or understand art -- even to create things that they then consider art.

The thing is that we've had the same discussion back when photography became a thing. Ultimately what it did was free the art of painting from the shackles of having to do portraits.

One additional thing is that I recommend extremely against trying to try and develop art skills by generating AI. Buy pencil and paper, buy a graphics tablet, open Krita or Blender, go through a couple of tutorials for a few days you'll have learned more about what you need to know to judge AI output than what hitting generate could teach you in a year. How do I know that the eyes in that AI painting have an off-kilter perspective? Because, for the life of me, I can't draw them straight either, but put enough hours into drawing to look at both the big picture and minute detail. One of the reasons I switched to sculpting.