August: Domino effect

Musk kept slowly backing away from his Twitter deal in August, and the month seemed to predict the AI “art” “renaissance” we currently seem to be in.

“Whether it’s random jokes made for Twitter or paintings that look like they were made by actual human beings, artificial intelligence’s ability to create art has exploded onto the scene over the last few months, and while this has been great news for shitposts and fans of tech, it has also raised a number of important questions and concerns,” Kotaku senior editor Luke Plunkett wrote on August 25.

“The reason for this is of course because there are, as there always are in these times, financial considerations at the heart of this movement, some of which are mixing in the same circles as so many other dystopian technological creations,” he said. “OpenAI, the lab behind Dall-E, was co-founded by Elon Musk, and already there have been million-dollar sales of NFT artworks generated by artificial intelligence. And that’s just the start.”

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