[HN Gopher] Show HN: AI-generated framed prints artworks
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       Show HN: AI-generated framed prints artworks
        
       Author : Despoisj
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2021-01-07 14:35 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | jnwatson wrote:
       | I'm going to preface this by saying I'm a big fan of generative
       | art (I've paid real money and have it on my wall).
       | 
       | But, IMHO very personal opinion, the actual product shown is not
       | very good. The biggest issue with generative, and generative AI
       | in general, is how to avoid appearing derivative.
       | 
       | Uh I see the problem. Some of the pieces are quite interesting if
       | you zoom in. Perhaps show fewer pieces bigger?
        
       | ore0s wrote:
       | Great idea! I've bought pieces from galleries, storage
       | containers, and artists direct and had this idea too. What art
       | you buy says something about you. One thing is that art is a
       | little bit like clothing- the brand matters. Something that is
       | recognizable or has meaning outside of the visual work. Not sure
       | if this is "legal" but if you can do art in the style of previous
       | masters but custom to something that I like, I would buy that for
       | sure. Or collaborate with living artists to create prints. Like a
       | black swan portrait in the style of Juan Travieso.
        
       | istorical wrote:
       | The idea of buying art that would seem to have not been created
       | with specific intent or meaning but instead was created with
       | randomness or through imitation or some set of rules may seem
       | kind of strange, because a lot of what art is about is the
       | meaning behind the piece, whether the meaning the artist meant to
       | impart or the meaning the observer finds in the piece.
       | 
       | But with any current "AI" or procedurally generated thing, rather
       | than thinking of the "AI" as the artist, the artist is the one
       | who created the rule set, the algorithm, the bounds of the
       | creation, the way the "AI" determines what to make. So we can
       | think of the meaning or decisions of the artist in this case not
       | as ideas or meaning or decisions of the AI generating these
       | pieces but rather the ideas or meaning or reasons for the creator
       | or implementer of these algorithms to shape this "AI" the way
       | they did.
       | 
       | Still perhaps not to the taste of everyone, or even most, but in
       | a world where tools and mediums continue to evolve towards
       | complexity and being more hands-off, the artistic choices change
       | but until we have hard AI or AI with consciousness, there will
       | still be a hand that ultimately set the thing in motion even if
       | one more step removed.
       | 
       | That being said, in this case the artist who created the rules
       | for creation here may be a good artist in one's taste or a bad
       | artist in one's taste, and all of the above is not to defend or
       | criticize this particular website or body of work, but to simply
       | help anyone else feeling a bit annoyed by this work or the price
       | on it to take a step back and consider that the idea of art made
       | by an "AI" can still be meaningful or of interest, when viewed
       | through the lens of the human behind the machine and what may
       | have inspired or influenced them.
        
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