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Monday, May 10, 2021

AI's for Art Forgery?

Some good points made here, in their current state these are not really even forgery-perfect.   But they could be.  And not to say they could not do other kinds of counterfeiting that don't require so much testing and identity accounting.   

AI: The Next Great Art Forger

Posted by Stephanie Glen in DSC

AI develops new “art” using image analysis.

GANs do not create, they repaint.

The result is a pastiche, a poor copy of the real thing.

AI art is created with algorithms that enable AI to learn a specific aesthetic by analyzing thousands of images; The algorithm then attempts to generate new images based on that learning [1].  Original pieces can also be created by GANs, which pit two neural networks against each other. The result is “art” that is difficult to differentiate from human-made artwork. One such piece, Portrait of Edmond Belamy, sold for a staggering $432, 500 when it went under the hammer at Christie’s Prints & Multiples sale at Christie’s on 23-25 October last year [2].

But do these AI-generated pastiches qualify as real art? Probably not. Many in the art and AI communities agree that these cannot be called art, at least in the traditional sense. Even if you could stretch the definition of art to include AI-generated images, they are of poor quality and no better than a factory produced knock off.    ..." 

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