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As a philistine, Feedback is unsure whether AI art is a good or a bad thing, or better or worse than the alternative. All we can say is that it is a Thing, and one that some people are increasingly willing to pay good money for. And also bitcoin.
One possible disadvantage of algorithmic art – or advantage, if you are one of those tiresomely logical types who finds the descriptions in exhibition catalogues to be largely mystifying agglomerations of words – is the inability to glean from the artists themselves what their intentions were in creating the piece.
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WHEN a powerful new technology comes around, people often split into two camps: those captivated by its benefits and those worried by the trouble it could unleash. This has happened with everything from knitting machines in the 16th century to artificial intelligence today.
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