Macci Ex Machina clown portrait generated by machine learning AI. Edinburgh 2022. — Thomson Reuters Foundation/Perry Jonsson & AI
EDINBURGH: At first glance, the series of warped clown faces in a collision of primary colours appears to be the work of a painter – with oily brushstrokes and smudged backgrounds the typical hallmarks.
Yet the images displayed by Scotland-based artist Perry Jonsson on his tablet were in fact created through artificial intelligence (AI) – reflecting a growing trend in the art world.
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