https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4MTgjNkfyI

The Jack Benny Program ep. with Ginger Rogers As Guest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPyY2U0RPvQ

The title stated is as follows.

> AI has drawn a self-portrait for the very first time revealing what it thinks it looks like

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/arts/visual-a … r-AA1wbFQY

Hmm.

However, on Saturday 21 December 2024, that inspired me to prompt Bing Chat AI as follows.

Please paint a self-portrait of yourself.

Four pictures were produced.

Yet i am wondering, is that the AI responding to the prompt as an AI as usual, or did the programmers set that up as an exception in some way?

William

Are pictures produced using generative AI properly described as Art?

There is a discussion in a well-known forum that includes asking about whether pictures produced using generative AI are properly described as Art.

I have produced pictures using generative AI. In fact, using the Bing Chat AI web-based facility, that facility now named Copilot.

To do that I have used a text prompt. Some text prompts are fairly short, some are longer.

I like to think of myself as an artist, yes, a hobbyist artist.

However, that thinking of myself as an artist is not based on having authored text prompts to an AI program.

Though I have sometimes used my knowledge of art, (as an artist?) in the authoring of a prompt to the AI system, such as by mentioning concepts such as golden ratio and rabatment.

As a side issue, I only learned of rabatment fairly recently, that from learning about it from John Kay's book that John kindly linked to in a post in another thread in this forum.

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=5555#p5555

Consider please the following image, and the prompt that was input to the AI system that resulted in the generation of that picture, and other pictures.

https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=3876#p3876

I chose that one. I have now got a framed print of the picture - I ordered a square, full-field, what is called a photo greetings card, from Papier.com, though using the image output from the AI system rather than a photograph. That had the effect of enlarging the image to fit and using a little from the edges as bleed areas, so losing those little edge parts. I also have a giclée print on a white background at exact size of 1024 pixels by 1024 pixels at 300 dots per inch on a 7 inch by 5 inch piece of archive quality paper and I opine that it looks really good, though I do not purport to be a "recognized" art critic.

So is it art?

Please discuss. Examples and links to examples are welcome in this discussion.

William

I refer to

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-27.html#color

I wonder if that could be extended so that four characters from

https://www.unicode.org/chartU+25F1 s/PDF/U25A0.pdf

are used to indicate metallics.

U+25F0 for gold
U+25F3 for silver
U+25F1 for bronze
U+25F2 for copper

Please note that these are not listed here in the same order as in the code chart.

This is so that the small square in these symbols when used as in this suggestion for the metals go in "medal order" like reading words on the page of a book.

William