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I am chuckling at the idea of an art critic version of this and feeding it famous works.

by someone7x 10y ago

ethanbond 10y ago
What do you think this is? Weird to imply such a strict delineation between photography and art.
- someone7x 10y ago
  Keegan seems to be judging the mechanics of photographic skill and not the artistry derived from it. The humor is from imagining a robot pan great works because of implementation flaws. "Mona Lisa. Muddy and drab. 2/10" Nothing really to do with me trying to classify what is/isn't art.
  - iXce 10y ago
    Actually it likes some pictures of the famous paintings :) "Simple but it's good" https://keegan.regaind.io/p/z7gQYuFxTTWTK00kHMuaPg https://keegan.regaind.io/p/z7gQYuFxTTWTK00kHMuaPg
    - someone7x 10y ago
      Truly impressive. I've been putting in pictures of my daughter from my phone and I think Keegan really shines at evaluating the pictures I take of my life. Sorta like a writing coach for a diary.
      - iXce 10y ago
        Thanks! This is exactly the use case :)
  - mc32 10y ago
    The difficulty will be understanding context. Was blurr intended for effect? Same with a fuzzy picture, or a dark one, or one with no apparent subject, or was it informational only, etc.
- theoh 10y ago
  Some photography is presented as contemporary art, some isn't. "Fine art photography" is usually not credible contemporary art. It's often black and white, formalistic, maybe a female nude... I can imagine an AI that only understands formal qualities becoming pretty good at rating it. What you might call conceptual photography, on the other hand, is "AI-complete". It's as hard as literature to appreciate, you definitely need a full human-equivalent AI. Roland Barthes' ideas of the studium and the punctum start to open up the intellectual depth of that kind of photo. This kind of project is possibly credible as a rater of formal quality against some ideal norm, maybe stretching to understanding composition in a crude sense. But everyone knows that it's the unexpected but visually compelling feature that makes an image good. (Or alternatively the significance of its content.) Standard strategies like the "rule of thirds" can only produce formulaic images.

I am chuckling at the idea of an art critic version of this and feeding it famous works.

ethanbond 10y ago

What do you think this is? Weird to imply such a strict delineation between photography and art.

someone7x 10y ago
Keegan seems to be judging the mechanics of photographic skill and not the artistry derived from it. The humor is from imagining a robot pan great works because of implementation flaws. "Mona Lisa. Muddy and drab. 2/10" Nothing really to do with me trying to classify what is/isn't art.
- iXce 10y ago
  Actually it likes some pictures of the famous paintings :) "Simple but it's good" https://keegan.regaind.io/p/z7gQYuFxTTWTK00kHMuaPg https://keegan.regaind.io/p/z7gQYuFxTTWTK00kHMuaPg
  - someone7x 10y ago
    Truly impressive. I've been putting in pictures of my daughter from my phone and I think Keegan really shines at evaluating the pictures I take of my life. Sorta like a writing coach for a diary.
    - iXce 10y ago
      Thanks! This is exactly the use case :)
- mc32 10y ago
  The difficulty will be understanding context. Was blurr intended for effect? Same with a fuzzy picture, or a dark one, or one with no apparent subject, or was it informational only, etc.
theoh 10y ago
Some photography is presented as contemporary art, some isn't. "Fine art photography" is usually not credible contemporary art. It's often black and white, formalistic, maybe a female nude... I can imagine an AI that only understands formal qualities becoming pretty good at rating it. What you might call conceptual photography, on the other hand, is "AI-complete". It's as hard as literature to appreciate, you definitely need a full human-equivalent AI. Roland Barthes' ideas of the studium and the punctum start to open up the intellectual depth of that kind of photo. This kind of project is possibly credible as a rater of formal quality against some ideal norm, maybe stretching to understanding composition in a crude sense. But everyone knows that it's the unexpected but visually compelling feature that makes an image good. (Or alternatively the significance of its content.) Standard strategies like the "rule of thirds" can only produce formulaic images.