More than a couple forgeries have been manufactured by the very experts tasked with detecting them. Other experts are incentivized not to detect forgery, or at least not speak to the scale of forgery as it may erode confidence in the legitimate market.
She seems to be ignoring at least the last 500 years of European art. Bright colors, drama, structured composition...it's all there to different degrees in different periods.
I've looked into William Morris' art and design philosophy quite a lot and he definitely didn't use muted colors because shiny bright stuff wasn't available.
Those recreations of the Impressionists also misrepresent their approach. The lack of detail was essential to the "impressions" they were trying to elicit.
I had (mistakenly it seems) thought the muted colors were partly due to those available for printing, but i suppose it makes sense that the Arts and Craft movement would not use bright colours?
Anyway, zooming in on the detail of vegetal regions of such fakes is clear evidence. It's hard enough to reproduce the small gaps between curled leaves in these images anyway.
William Morris in particular just favored the dark and muted. His stained glass windows are the darkest I know of, and his Kelmscott Press books have been criticized for their very dark pages.
There really is a whole gooey schlocky kind of sheen to so much of that stuff that really zeros out any intentionality of the original works. I think the most egregious examples are more operator error than anything else, but it is what it is.
It requires a special type of individual to fake the greats and a special type of customer to buy the forgeries.
Creating a new 'art franchise' is an entirely different proposition, and I am sure that there will be plenty of new artists that are able to use their own name/brand/identity to succeed. It might also take time for people to get recognised.
With so much AI offers, what the market is lacking is some AI buyers.
I've bought lots of art commissions and actual hand-made knickknacks and toys from actual non-print-mill individuals.
The experience has always been fine for me -- but I was aware of the artist and what I wanted going into it rather than searching for 'something cool' only to be inundated with mass-production "I LOVE MY DAD" mugs.
As a discovery tool, it's worse than anywhere else.
- Individual sellers in this sector struggle to get seen among all the big corporate offerings. Let's make a marketplace to help them find and connect with customers!
- Wow! Now small businesses in this sector can make real money! <-- here is where the original business plan ends
- So much money that new people are trying to get into the sector now...
- That means there's money to be made selling the ability to enter the marketplace to those people
- Big businesses are happy to franchise their offerings out to people who want some of that sweet marketplace money
- Market economics of a never-ending supply of new rubes looking to get a piece of the action, and the dominance of the big suppliers, makes sure their resellers' margins are cut razor thin, and big business collects the bulk of the revenue
- Marketplace ends up full of get-rich-quick-scam victims undercutting and driving out of business the very small sellers the marketplace was set up to benefit
AI means you can skip the MLM scam component of the process and just destroy the marketplace with sock puppet bots.
The difference between ebay and others are several: much better search. It's set up to allow customers to target what they want. Better filters. It includes the capability to have a complex user defined search that emails any new items that meet the criteria to the customer. Layers of search: one set of results can be searched to provide another set. It's amazing how other sites don't do this.
The result is that ebay provides benefit to customers that in practice is not so easily gamed by big sellers. It gives you very, very, very niche results. E.g. arts and crafts pottery of a particular vintage and maker and color.
I've found replacement parts for kitchen implements that haven't been manufactured in 20 years.
I think it's just value being properly reassessed to be more accurate.
Art has no intrinsic value, whatever value there might be are all external projections. If "AI" devalues art to what it should actually be, that is a good thing.
Incidentally, art has seen a slow but constant decline in perceived value over time. "AI" is merely accelerating it.
- CEO Nwabudike Morgan (Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, unlocking the Nanoreplicator tech)
For now we have the information to distinguish between real and imitations. But what will happen in 200 years? Will people still know how the real Monet painted?
I'm not sure how well the information economy will work when everything is a forgery and every transaction a scam. It's bad for customers and bad for legitimate businesses.
othing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/victorian-wallpape...
Yeah, that seems to be one of the MJ telltales, and preference-tuned model telltale in general: they use too wide a color range and want to jam in every possible color. It's possible there's a lowest-common-denominator human-rating bias towards using a lot of colors. That seems to be a big problem with RLHF and instruction-tuning as practiced, which you will notice as you delve into outputs more.
(I don't worry too much about the 'erosion of art history'. You know how many forgeries there are out there in art history? The only reason you don't think about this for, say, Rembrandt, is that the 95%+ of fakes or pious forgeries or restorations out there over the centuries have been winnowed out or destroyed or lost.)
Doesn't mean I have to like it.
