Troll and Bot accounts are everywhere on social media. Ever since the worldwide realization of the use of bot farms in 2016 (with the American election), Trolling and Bot use has been professionalized. Fine Art is an area where I haven't seen a lot of examples of it though, or maybe just not obvious ones. Besides promotion pages (art being essential to Image-Based platforms like Instagram and Tumblr) the Art Industry has a proportionally lower representation of fake and automated accounts. Troll/Bot accounts are trying to accomplish the goal of sending you to a drop-shipped link or aggregating you to a paid subscription site. Even with Troll accounts that are just meant to spread misinformation, these heavily rely on the concept of truth and convincing people of the truth. Truth is in fact something fine art, or at least its sale, doesn't concern itself with. I suppose spreading fake news stories about existing artists would make sense as a use for Bots and Trolls in the Fine A...
I have been using Chat-GPT more often than not as a way of asking questions like a search engine. "How do I do my own taxes?" "What do I need to start my own business?" "How does an emerging artist gain success?", through these conversations I can plan ahead in my own life. In doing so I have asked ChatGPT questions about itself and where it 'believes' AI Art is going, I believe that 'AI' generative computing can be a substitute for " Ü ber" Artists (An artist so successful that they become a brand, their studio an unstoppable institution). Very similar to Banksy coming up in the mid-2000s by copying fine art and contemporary art, I believe the same can now be achieved without human interaction at all in the creative process. However, I think this experiment would work best if people followed the creative directions of this benevolent art program and carried out the production and fabrication of the art pieces it describes, exactl...