The Portrait of Edward de Belamy is a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) ink print created by the art group Obvious.
The name “Belamy” is a joke on the name of the developer of GAN, Ian Goodfellow.
The print was bought at auction for $432,500 (USD), a first for AI generated art.
I learned about this from a talk on “Alternative Histories of genAI” by Lauren Tilton. She talked about the institutions involve in authorizing art. Is it art because it was bought for a lot of money?
This talk was part of a conference in Nice and Cannes, Colloque “Créativités artificielles: Approches critiques de l’IA” @ Nice that I also presented at. My talk was on “Thinking-Through Trust in AI”.