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One of the most important things that distinguishes great artists is that they have a distinctive, recognizable style. And it takes a lot of hard work to achieve this.

I think what makes me uneasy about these AI art generators is that they can trivially assimilate a new style like this and commoditize it. That's why so many of the most successful prompts are "X in the style of ${artist}".



This just implies style will mutate as it has in chess.


Chess style and art style don’t seem similar enough to me for this analogy to work. Computers are strictly better than humans at chess in every respect.


False. In freeform chess tournaments, computer+human teams win over computers alone.

Similarily, computer+artist will always produce more compelling work than computers alone.


>In freeform chess tournaments, computer+human teams win over computers alone

That has not been true for several years now.


I admit to not being in the know around the chess scene, but I find references to Gary Kasparov being confident as recently as 2017 that human+computer outperforms computer alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_chess#In_future_studi...

Has this changed in the past 5 years?

I'm having trouble finding actual tournament results.




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