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What Next TBD: Can A.I. Make Great Art?

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Technology is transforming the creative economy and ideas about what "art" even is. Guest: Drew Harwell Host: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's.

0:04.0

Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's.

0:08.0

You'll get to know the difference.

0:09.9

New Big Arch for Big McDonald's hunger.

0:15.4

Until 9th of September from 11 a.m.,

0:17.7

participating restaurants only, subject to availability.

0:23.7

Drew Harwell covers technology for the Washington Post,

0:27.3

so he's not usually describing art in granular detail.

0:31.4

But in this case, I asked him to,

0:33.7

a piece called Teatro d'Opresie.

0:37.1

That's French for space opera theater.

0:40.0

It's this gorgeous-looking painting that is, you know, gold and red,

0:46.6

and it looks almost like this giant Baroque hall

0:49.9

where there are these three women in these just flowing red and white robes,

0:57.6

and it's this giant kind of chamber,

1:01.0

and they're looking out to this big circular window that is so bright,

1:05.6

you can only really see like a glimmer of mountains in the distance. And it looks very sort of like

1:14.0

sci-fi and mysterious, but also kind of old world. It's a really cool, cool image.

1:20.8

What's so important about it?

1:23.0

And what's even more important about it is that it was created by an AI. It was created by this

1:28.9

tool called Mid Journey, which you type in a text prompt and it spits out an image.

1:35.3

This particular image was entered into the Colorado State Fair's Fine Art Competition last month

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