Chinese artist responds to debate about data-scraping as he prepares for new collaboration with AI
Art that can be easily replicated by artificial intelligence is “meaningless”, according to the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who believes even Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse would have had to rethink their approach if AI had existed in their era.
Ai Weiwei’s comments feed into the current charged debate about the rise of AIs that use data scraped from artists’ websites to create “original” images in their style.
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