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Can A.I. Make Great Art?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Technology is transforming the creative economy and ideas about what "art" even is.

Guest: Drew Harwell

Host: Lizzie O'Leary


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0:00.0

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1:07.7

Drew Harwell covers technology for the Washington Post, so he's not usually describing art in

1:13.6

granular detail. But in this case, I asked him to. A piece called Teatre d'Opres spécial.

1:20.6

That's French for Space Opera Theatre. It's this gorgeous looking painting that is

1:28.8

gold and red and it looks almost like this giant baroque hall where there are these three women

1:37.0

in these just flowing red and white robes. And it's this giant kind of chamber and they're looking

1:45.3

out to this big circular window that is so bright you can only really see like a glimmer of like

1:53.2

mountains in the distance. And it looks very sort of like sci-fi and mysterious but also kind of

2:00.7

old world. It's a really cool cool image. What's so important about it? And what's even more

2:08.9

important about it is that it was created by an AI. It was created by this tool called Mid-Journey,

2:16.1

which you type in a text prompt and it spits out an image. This particular image was entered into

2:21.2

the Colorado State Fair's Fine Art Competition last month by a man named Jason Allen. At the fair,

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