The artworld is not a place of equality. But if we input bias, we can only get biased outputs. Continue reading

November 17, 2023
by Aesthetics for Birds
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November 17, 2023
by Aesthetics for Birds
1 Comment
The artworld is not a place of equality. But if we input bias, we can only get biased outputs. Continue reading
November 2, 2023
by Aesthetics for Birds
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When we ask questions about AI art, we are really asking why we care about art at all. Continue reading
November 2, 2017
by C. Thi Nguyen
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We are witnessing the birth of a new comedic form: satire by algorithm. You want to make fun of some category of thing, and show how empty and mechanical and simplistic all the examples of that thing are. So you make a bot that randomly generates new examples of that thing. And the entire point is that it’s a bot. And often, it’s utterly crucial that it’s a dumb and obvious bot. This is why isolated exposure to the only one or two bot-Tweets or bot-memes doesn’t get you the full package. The real sharp end of the joke hits when you start to catch on to the rules, when the raw and obviously algorithmic nature of the bot reveals the utter banal predictability of its target.