Father and daughter plead guilty to selling fake Picasso and Banksy works

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11823821/father-daughter-selling-fake-picasso-banksy/

And people wonder why I am so adamantly opposed to #AI. What a sickening way to start a Monday morning:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/spotifys-latest-breakout-band-the-velvet-sundown-appears-to-be-ai-generated-and-fans-arent-happy

#MusiciansOfMastodon #Music #FakeArt #FakeMusic

"Companies can’t launch a new AI venture without their customers telling them, clearly, “nobody wants this.” And yet they persist. Why? Class solidarity. The capitalist class, as a whole, has made a massive bet on AI: $1 trillion dollars,
[…] The right wing aesthetic project is to flood the zone with bullshit in order to erode the intellectual foundations for resisting political cruelty."—Gareth Watkins

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism >

https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

#AI #AIaesthetics #fascism #aesthetics #talentless #AIimages #PoliticalCruelty #AIgeneratedImages #techbros #technocracy #fascists #elite #TechElite #classism #ugliness #inhuman #abilities #artists #FakeArt #bullshit

As a mixed media artist, I'm quite unimpressed by the unimaginative and flavorless yet accurate queries results of 'AI' image generators, and I certainly hate the idea of use 'AI' to manipulate music audiences for the profit of capitalism, as Spotify currently does.

The only AI thing from which I find bits of enjoyment is with text generators as it makes me reflect on the many ways one can convey ideas into words; although as a music maker, I feel that words can have limitations in sharing some emotions.

#AImusic #musak vs #music #AI #art #narration #ImageGeneration #FakeArt #FakeMusicians #emotions #AIGeneratedMusic #TextGeneration #Spotify #Capitalism #AudienceManipulation #playlists #words

The Van Gogh Museum has identified three works attributed to Van Gogh in private collections that are fake, including a previously authenticated painting sold through Christie’s for nearly $1 million in 2011.

@artnews #VanGogh #fakes #art #fakeart #museums

Ha! The eyes have it!

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/astronomers-discover-technique-to-spot-ai-fakes-using-galaxy-measurement-tools/

#FakeArt
#AI

I hate AI "art"
It's all like that horrible mass-produced Thomas Kincaid artwork you saw everywhere in the 2000s.

#AIArt #AIArtwrok #FakeArt