
Context: Jerry Saltz on Art as the Greatest Operating System
Boys Club
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AI Art Is Trying to Reproduce Itself
Art has stayed well ahead of AI art because AI art can only plug in algorithms that already exist, other people's ideas. It hasn't been able to quite create a new work of art. Right now, AI is at the beginning of its journey; it still does what all artists do. And to me, that's really full-king thrilling. The Internet is a game-changer. All of you are talented. If you just get out there and make bad AI art, make bad painting, make bad sculpture, make bad lithography. Digital art is no better and no worse, no more and no less than painting a pencil, photography. You're just taking my work.
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