Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks

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d_brennen said:
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Having said that, I'd buy a print of any of these for the office wall
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Too true, didn't looks so close before but on second look these are more fascinating than half the crap I've seen in galaries. Modern art?...wait!
 
NVP said:
Too true, didn't looks so close before but on second look these are more fascinating than half the crap I've seen in galaries. Modern art?...wait!
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Some people are already taking the **** a bit with it though:

https://www.christies.com/features/...o-artists-one-human-one-a-machine-9332-1.aspx

AI artwork sells for $432,500 — nearly 45 times its high estimate — as Christie’s becomes the first auction house to offer a work of art created by an algorithm
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Not only that but the people profiting from that art largely relied on some open source project created by someone else (a 19 year old student).
 
It gets worse... it seems quite possible they didn't really add much at all themselves, but just used the poor guy's code after he specifically requests it not be used for this purpose... even had the cheek to get him to hurry up with an update:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18302634

Oh gosh, he even links an issue where one of the guys who sold the painting (Hugo Caselles-Dupre, hence the username Caselles) literally asks for help setting up.

So Hugo asks for help with setup because he can't get it to work, and Robbie (original author) replies "working on a rewrite of the codebase, should be soon" while Hugo keeps pushing for updates. Turns out it's trickier than expected so Robbie says "sorry, might take longer". Hugo's response?

> "Ok, really disappointed. Could you at least provide the code for the 128x128 Gan in Keras ?"

He's literally sitting there for months pushing for poor Robbie to do the free work for him so that he can try to profit from it.

Maybe they really did make a lot of changes to the model. But from the conversation in that issue thread and the striking similarities between the painting and the other ones that Robbie had made over a year ago, it doesn't feel likely to me that that's the case.

Hopefully some justice will come out of this situation.

As an aside, according to his bio Robbie's only 19 (and already doing this level of research!). Sad to see younger researchers being taken advantage of like this.
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Especially cheeky when he's sat there coding away in Lua/Torch and they seemingly want him to knock up a quick solution for them in keras, for free, just so they can crack on with their commercial art stunt.
 
@dowie Wow... Unexpected price tag! And made me really sad, poor kid. Is he taking them to court at all considering they went against his wishes, or is he screwed because open source?
 
You're a star. See you plebs later, I'll be moving to Rees Mogg levels of wealth and superiority very shortly.

...Do they let brown people in?
 
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