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A.I. Can Make Art That Feels Human. Whose Fault Is That?

Photograph of Leonardo da Vinci: Wisdom of A.I. Light Exhibition” at X Media Art Museum in Istanbul last year

Image: Sedat Suna/EPA, via Shutterstock

“Rather than worry about whether bots can do what humans do, we would do much better to raise our cultural expectations of humans: to expect and demand that art — even and especially art made with the help of new technologies — testify to the full extent of human powers and human aspirations.” Link to Story

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Museums Are Learning To Love NFTs

image: the museum of modern art/ robert gerhardt

“August institutions are adding tokenised artworks to their collections. Why? Yet the real cultural legacy of the nft boom is that it brought digital art into the public eye. It “opened up the gallery doors for digital artists”, says Zachary Small, the author of “Token Supremacy”, a forthcoming book. Serious work from the “nft internet culture” will succeed in the […]

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Holly Herndon’s Infinite Art

Multiple images of Holly Herndon wearing a blue dress and singing

Carla Rossi for The New Yorker

“The artist and musician uses machine learning to make strange, playful work. She also advocates for artists’ autonomy in a world shaped by A.I. Holly+ represents the future that Herndon and Dryhurst anticipate for music, art, and literature: a world of “infinite media,” in which anyone can adjust, adapt, or iterate on the work, talents, and traits of others. The […]

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Can Machine Creativity Truly Exist?

Does Machine Creativity Truly Exist

Harm van den Dorpel, Orb, 2022

“Five curators, artists and writers discuss the impact of AI models like ChatGPT on artistic production AI can feed back and add different layers and options, but it cannot replace humans -NOAM SEGAL” Link to Story

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Why You Soon Won’t Be Able to Avoid AI—At Work or At Home

Why You Soon Won’t Be Able to Avoid AI

Joe Magee

“Soon, most of us will use tools like these, even if indirectly, unless we want to risk falling behind. We will face a growing number of communications generated with AI assistance, plans made with their input, and even products they helped inspire. Productivity-enhancing technology tends to improve our output or make it more plentiful, forcing people to change how they […]

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