On & AI Art
- Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art Ted Chiang for The New Yorker
- Trevor Paglen and Holly Herndon on Making Art with AI and What the Discourse Is Missing Interview by Max Read for TOTEI
The Synthetic Eye by Fred Ritchin
“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”