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AI-Assisted Music Creation Challenges
- Yacht's album, "Chain Tripping," was co-written with AI, a process Claire Evans found surprisingly difficult.
- AI-generated music lacked the embodied rhythms of human composition, making live performance awkward.
Early Algorithmic Art
- AI-generated art has a longer history than often realized, with artists using algorithms since the 1960s.
- Harold Cohen pioneered algorithmic art, creating images based on rules given to a computer, then printed by a robot.
AI Art's Market Breakthrough and Controversy
- The 2018 sale of "Portrait of Edmond Belamy" marked a turning point in AI art's recognition.
- Controversy arose because the collective Obvious used an open-source algorithm, raising questions about artistic ownership.