of Alan Turing sells for $1m at auction
AI artwork of Alan Turing sells for $1m at auction
The slop: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/a50d/live/57dcda40-9d54-11ef-9850-61b70bbc107f.png.webp
Me with my $300k monkey jpeg: look at the intrinsic value, creativity, and socioeconomic revolution this monkey jpeg has because I paid $300k for it. It's completely nonfungible because you can't right click it and save the image.
Me with my $1m recombination of all the Alan Turing pictures on google images with a prompt saying "make it dark and like Beksinski kind of": look at the intrinsic value, creativity, and socioeconomic revolution this Alan Turing jpeg has because I paid $1m for it. It's completely nonfungible because you can't prompt a free image generator using the same dataset with "oil painting, alan turing, make it dark and like Beksinski kind of".
:walter-benjamin-agony:
it's gonna go the way of the nft then?
I don't see how it ever be anything but an NFT. My tattoo artist charges $250 per hour. I could buy his tattoo gun for $500 and tattoo my entire body for the cost of the ink. It makes more sense to instead pay him $250 per hour because it would take me years of dedicated practice to have 1/10th of the artistic ability he has. That's the actual value of art, the craftsmanship which gives it individual creative spirit and the new ideas it creates. If I can reprint the same work in an instant, even better because my prompt will reflect my aesthetic values, there's no reason I wouldn't just do that instead of buying any AI-generated commodity. I even described this painting to a horny minotaur chatbot and it gave me the same kind of generic answer this chatbot did to describe its hallucination, so the entire idea of the work is just the weighted average of what 500 bazinga-brained reddit comments think AI will be.
It will go the way of the dutch tulips, yes.
If your ungrateful son of a fuck government blasts your balls to death with chemicals don't worry. Years and years after you died some nerds that used your math to create a big Rube Goldberg of pattern replication will sell a portrait of you. Trust the system.
Ai-Da Robot, which uses an advanced AI language model to speak, said: "The key value of my work is its capacity to serve as a catalyst for dialogue about emerging technologies."
The work "invites viewers to reflect on the god-like nature of AI and computing while considering the ethical and societal implications of these advancements", the robot said.
Why do all the LLMs talk like that, for lack of a better word? They sound like a corporate press release instead of something a real human being would say.
Because most of them are fed by corporate schlock and corrected by corporate schmucks.
What circle of hell does this put us in?
They're attributing more humanity to this robot than to actual people from any marginalised group when they're reporting on them
Ai-Da Robot Studios Ai-Da Robot, an AI robot, standing in front of several works of art. She is having her photo taken by two people standing in front of her. You can see a camera and a light. A man is walking away from and another man is on a mezzanine floor. The floor is green.
These journalists will respect an actual robot's pronouns but reject the existence of trans people
I'm pretty sure that's more because it's tradition to use she/her for vehicles/machines. Like how sailors refer to their boats as she/her, it's also pretty common for older cars, and I've heard it done for machines too.
8 hours isn’t enough. you know what’s enough? 8 billion hours
All art auctions are money laundering schemes.