Game designer Jason Allen won first place at the Colorado State Fair art competition with a work he made using an artificial intelligence image generator. Allen’s controversial victory has sparked fury online, as human artists yet again fear for the future of their profession. “We’re watching the death of artistry unfold before our eyes,” despaired one Twitter user in reaction to the announcement.
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Are the days of art forgers finally numbered? A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool might just provide the answer. Art historians and physicists at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Ohio have joined forces and trained a computer system to reportedly identify the unique brushstrokes of artists with 96% accuracy.
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The Swiss company Art Recognition has carried out AI analysis on Rubens’s Samson and Delilah at the National Gallery of London. The result suggests there is a 91.78 percent probability the painting is by another hand.
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Using artificial intelligence, one of Rembrandt van Rijn’s most iconic works of art, Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Bannick Cocq – better known as The Night Watch – has had missing sections reconstructed to give viewers’ an insight into how Rembrandt’s painting originally looked.
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The International Head of the Prints & Multiples department at Christie’s has decided to auction off an artwork created by artificial intelligence because he “thought it’d be cool”.
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