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What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?

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Re: What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?

#21

Very good. We need more of these experiments in all areas. Hopefully it helps people to at least be more conscious of their bias.

If we learn anything from all studies in this field, that is barely possible if not impossible at all, to change people’s mind. Even when they face clear evidence of their own mistake.

Re: What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?

#22
post #7

AI art enjoyers and missing the point of art: name a better duo. No one has ever claimed AI cannot imitate a Monet, but however good the imitation, it still isn't art any more than a Xerox of a painting is art. This is the exact reason why most people feel bad after discovering that what they felt was work of human ingenuity, is just a fake, a simulacrum of it. The creation of art, arguably the most human of instinct…

> All this proves is that most people cannot tell if that picture is a Monet or not.

It goes beyond that. It proves that many people have an inherent bias against AI itself that's unrelated to whatever it generates. "This was made by AI, therefore it's bad in every way".

Re: What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?

#23
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post #8

Seems the poster is the one fooled by the AI more than anything, because most likely the bulk of the replies are bots, so you got AI to criticize AI.

> Seems the poster is the one fooled by the AI I think this HN commenter is also being fooled by the AI. It's likely that a lot of comments on HN are bots, so here you got an AI to comment about AI criticizing AI.

all right, all right, who got a bot to write this comment then?

bzzz, clank

Re: What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?

#26

Very good. We need more of these experiments in all areas. Hopefully it helps people to at least be more conscious of their bias.

I do think this reveals peoples' biases, but not in the way you probably do.

I think Monet just wasn't as good as his renown purports.

EDIT: I doubt this experiment would go similarly for a Caravaggio or a Michelangelo.

Re: What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?

#28
1: the answers posted are cherrypicked to prove a specific point

2: some of the (albeit mislead) answers basically say "it's nice but it's not something a person willingly outlined and drew" and they are not wrong

3: some answers complain on the lack of depth and detail, color blurbs, and we have to agree the tested version is of very low resolution

so in the end we are left with: "some people who were told it was AI knee-jerked negatively" and i can't even start to see what's surprising about it

Re: What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?

#30
post #7

AI art enjoyers and missing the point of art: name a better duo. No one has ever claimed AI cannot imitate a Monet, but however good the imitation, it still isn't art any more than a Xerox of a painting is art. This is the exact reason why most people feel bad after discovering that what they felt was work of human ingenuity, is just a fake, a simulacrum of it. The creation of art, arguably the most human of instinct…

Good points, but consider what this post does prove: people’s arguments against AI art are shallow; they often attack the artifacts themselves instead of making your deeper argument.
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