AI artist Jason Allen submitted some Midjourney output, “Theatre D’Opera Spatial,” to the digital art category of the Colorado State Fair fine arts competition in 2022. He won, to some controversy.…
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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
Now do pour painting
sign a toilet bowl
@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.