Artist Alexander Reben to Become First OpenAI Artist-in-Residence, Exploring Generative AI's Frontier in Art
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Alexander Reben is an artist who will become OpenAI's first artist in residence, starting a 3-month residency in January.
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Reben recently demonstrated A.I.-generated art criticism at an OpenAI conference, showing the A.I.'s ability to both create and critique art.
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Reben combines his own custom code with tools like GPT-4 to create generative art with A.I.
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Some artists see A.I. tools as innovative, while others criticize the scraping of artist work without permission to train A.I. systems.
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Reben's residency comes as generative A.I. advances rapidly, leading artists and writers to grapple with the implications.