On AI & Art

#art #tech #ai

"Art does not die because there is no art; it dies because there is too much of it."

-Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art

• Talking About Large Language Models by Murray Shanahan
• The Dark Forest and Generative AI by Maggie Appleton

"Our new challenge as little snowflake humans will be to prove we aren’t language models. It’s the reverse turing test."

• Algorithmic Underground
• Finding the AI Line by Ryan Broderick

"[The AI backlash] has led to a certain irony for creators who want to, in a sense, get away with using AI. At least as it exists right now. Like Glorb, they have to find a way to use it that is both impossible to achieve without it, and also not reliant on it as a shortcut. It has to make people comment, “This is what AI was actually for.” And it’s these edge cases that interested parties should keep an eye on."

• ‘We tried to train it like it was a kid in art school’: artist David Salle on using an AI model in his painting practice Worth reading in full.
• Adversarial Perturbations Cannot Reliably Protect Artists From Generative AI

  "all existing protections can be easily bypassed, leaving artists vulnerable to style mimicry"