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AI-Generated Portrait Sells For Nearly Half a Million In Auction (bloomberg.com)
A portrait created by artificial intelligence fetched $432,500 at Christie's in New York on Thursday, the first time a computer-generated artwork was offered by a major auction house. Bloomberg reports: The print on canvas, titled "Edmond de Belamy, from La Famille de Belamy," depicts a blurry and unfinished image of a man. Displayed in a gilded wooden frame, it was estimated to fetch $7,000 to $10,000 and offered as the final lot at Christie's auction of prints and multiples. The work was the brainchild of Obvious Art, a Paris-based collective, with help from an algorithm known as GAN (Generative Adversarial Network).
"We fed the system with a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th century to the 20th," collective member Hugo Caselles-Dupre told Christie's. The piece sparked a bidding war among five parties that lasted about seven minutes, with an anonymous phone buyer prevailing, said Christie's spokeswoman Jennifer Cuminale.
"We fed the system with a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th century to the 20th," collective member Hugo Caselles-Dupre told Christie's. The piece sparked a bidding war among five parties that lasted about seven minutes, with an anonymous phone buyer prevailing, said Christie's spokeswoman Jennifer Cuminale.
Being crazy rich people.
Turns out the AI that runs a giant Chinese hedge fund was really turned on by the image of a mangled human.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Guess I should have done a painting with AI then.
Will AI come up with its own way to destroy a painting immediately after it has been sold?
I hate to say it, but I suspect this just shows that the most important part of being an artist is marketing. I doubt their AI is really all that great and probably more complex attempts at similar things have been tried. Especially considering it is coming from an art collective rather than a coding collective. Look at Banksy. Nothing really that Blek leRat or others haven't already done, but they have a nice collection of people helping them to promote and make the news. Oh well, they hit the jackpot. I hope their cool people deserving of it.
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It would have fetched over a million if the program had painted some titties instead!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Will they still be able to view the nekkid pictures of Melania on the internet in prison? Asking for a friend...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
.. when the computer is turned off.
It's just conspicuous consumption. It happens at all socioeconomic levels.
Apple products are conspicuous consumption for proletariat. The tech itself is over-price trash. But that doesn't matter because it has signalling value.
Thanks for the free art. I heard some guy paid $500k for something I just downloaded...
I smell a rat...
Until the money actually changes hands and the picture is shipped, it wasn't sold, just bid on.
When it is, let me know because I have a pile of really nice and rare ASCII art to put up for sale...
By the way, anybody have an extra box of tractor feed paper and a line printer I could use for few days?
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
This sort of thing happens when the rich have so much money they nothing better to do with it. They spend it on things that have little economic benefit (i.e. employing people); at least when compared to spending it on the basics.
"Bots took our jerbs!"
Table-ized A.I.
I think your A.I. is not quite ready to post on Slashdot.
#DeleteFacebook
Computer shows in the 80's were pretty cool if you were in middle school...
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I have a nice 132 columns dot matrix printer right here, I'll let you rent it for the low, low cost of only USD$100000 per day! Shipping not included!
OK, but I'll have to pay you once I get a few pictures auctioned off OK? Oh, and will you take a check from a Nigerian prince, cash it and send me the change in cash?
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
It isn't about the art, it is the conversations around the art.
Beauty is common. A story to tell is the point.
Obvious basically just took some third party code and ran it. Their contribution was printing it out, while the real "artists" making these algorithms perform well are the engineers working on the GAN architectures. I hope all proceeds are donated to the AI community.
You will spend many rage-filled years watching absolutely nothing happen to people you are mad at online, and then you will die bitter and frustrated.
Computer generated art has been sold at large auction houses for quite some time.
http://www.dazeddigital.com/ar...
What is new is that we are calling algorithms AI now. Apparently that new label erases the past.
The following is absolutely true. I damn near had to bite my lip to keep from laughing out loud.
One of the dates I took my wife on was to the Nelson Art Museum for a show on Celtic art (circa 1990).
After show, went to shop and found book on same I wanted.
Standing in line to pay and overhear conversation behind my by a woman thinking herself an artist (graphic artist) who had just gotten CorelDraw, which she was gushing about. I used FreeLance but hey, interesting to listen.
Then she got to her "favorite thing". With a digital art program... "You get so many originals!"
Looking back, I admire the restraint I had until we got back to our car to leave.
This post is more insightful than all the idiot trump derangement syndrome posts I read here.
Mod parent up.
Nothing better signal than stupid money starting to dominate.
AI and computers have no notion of art whatsoever,
This is yet again utter BS.
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It is the capitalist system, not the socialist system, that suppresses the social development and the independence and creativity of the popular masses, and it is hard to provide the people with an independent and creative worthwhile life in capitalist society where the working masses are regarded as the slaves of capital.
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What really is fun is that computer generated "art" is like animal created photography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute) -- it is not copyrighted and is in public domain.
What a great way to spend $500k... :)
Does anyone notice it is crap? Make a thing obscured and crappy enough and it must be great art. No.
E Proelio Veritas.
I think your A.I. is not quite ready to post on Slashdot.
Just add blockchain to it.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Art is one of the most sought-after commodities in the world because it is one of the only things that appreciates in value instead of depreciating, like nearly everything else.
This also is why it is stolen and used as a substitute for millions of dollars on the black market. If these works of art are ever returned, they often end up back in the art museum curator's hands damaged and ruined.
The art thieves treat the local historical culture of the artist, and educational artistic value as nothing.
I'd imagine "A.I."-created paintings will eventually be worth a lot in this market for being relatively unique. They might create interesting philosophical debates about the nature of creativity, but headlines like these are just dollar amount dick-wagging contests.
How is this waste of money more senseless than the currency that paid for it? The value of the money is also based on faith that it is worth something. It is unlikely that it was paid for in paper, and the payment was made by pushing some data from one system to another. Even if the currency is backed by gold, there is still faith required that the shiny rocks are worth more than what I have in my yard.
Bad school day?
But then no artist gives credit to the canvas maker, paint brush maker, or paint maker ...
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
"We fed the system with a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th century to the 20th"
So someone paid $500K for the most generic average portrait ever produced.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.