Carrots comments on Ban ai

[–] Carrots 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

[–] ambitious_bones@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This painting was purposefully left unfinished by Haring to represent his life being cut short by AIDS. It has sometimes been described as a self-portrait, with the incomplete nature of the piece representing Haring's unfinished career and the art he would not be able to create.[1][4] This painting has also been described as a statement on the AIDS epidemic's destruction of the gay community and culture, with the sudden shift into blank canvas indicating the sudden onset of the pandemic.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh nooo, the slop made it into the article

In 2023, the painting gained additional public notice when a Twitter user used an artificial intelligence (AI) software to "complete" the unfinished painting.[10] The tweet went viral and sparked widespread discussion on the use of AI in art and on the original intent and statement of the artist. Many found the action to be disrespectful, both in that the "completion" ignored Haring's artistic autonomy and that it changed the aspect of the painting which stood as a memorial to those who died to the AIDS epidemic.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago

the "completion" ignored Haring's artistic autonomy and that it changed the aspect of the painting

And it doesn't even look like his work. The AI should have picked up on his stick figure motif, and distributed them around the field, but it just created a mess. His work is usually easily recognizable, but I would not have recognized that piece as a Haring. Haring-like, at best.

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[–] Carrots 3 points 1 month ago

That’s dumb. Nothing that happens on twitter should make it to Wikipedia.

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