Artificial art.

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Artificial art has been going through staggering growth in the last decade, only a few years ago the outputs of these programs were so bad that they got little if any attention outside their own communities, however, the standard of images generated is now at a level comparable or superior to human generated images, and is still progressing.

Recently Jason Allen entered the artwork titled "Theatre d'Opera Spatial" in the "Digital Arts / Digitally-Manipulated Photography" category of the Colorado State Fair fine arts competition, in which he placed 1st. The image itself was made by AI generator Midjourney, with Jason only needing to give it written prompts for what he wanted the image to look like. Source

As you would expect there was much gnashing of teeth when it became known how the image was created, but beyond this competitions and concerns over fairness is the reality that human judges believed this to be human work.

Below are 4 more example of AI generated art work, all that is required of the human is an initial text prompt, from which the AIs generate a couple of images in a few seconds, from photorealistic to cartoons, fine art to absurdism, the AIs use natural language to generate these images.


Prompt: A photo of a quaint flower shop storefront with a pastel green and clean white facade and open door and big window


Prompt: An old central Asian man herding a flock of sheep, white yurts against the tall mountains in the background


Prompt: McDonald's Ad discovered inside an ancient Egyptian pyramid


Prompt: A masterful oil painting of a mini Australian shepherd, utterly shocked at the price of the dinner bill