<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">I’m not even gonna touch that. Lol. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Looks like that might be a borderline political post. Tsk tsk </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Side note: I have a friend from high school using AI of sorts to make art:</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.cloudpainter.com/">https://www.cloudpainter.com/</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Is it art? I say yes. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 22, 2021, at 6:20 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br><span>From: Henry Rivera <hrivera@alumni.virginia.edu> </span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>...many if not most artists start by making their work for free. ... I’m part of a community where I live centered around a gallery where over 30 local artists sell their works. ... -Henry</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Henry we have a guy over here whose rookie works are so good, they are getting tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands per painting:</span><br><span></span><br><span>https://www.npr.org/2021/07/14/1015895944/the-latest-ethical-pitfalls-involving-joe-bidens-son-hunter</span><br><span></span><br><span>No painter in history has done this before.</span><br><span></span><br><span>spike</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span><br><span>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>