Can computers create great art? Most people struggle to tell the difference between human and digital pictures, and many prefer machine-made paintings.
Test shows we can’t spot AI paintings
Artful: This image above is made by AI (generated by Jack Galler). It shows a detail from the best-loved picture in a recent competition. Even 1,278 people who said they utterly loathed AI art still preferred AI paintings to great human artists such as David Hockney and Paul Gauguin. Glossary
Impressionist - A 19th Century art movement known for small but visible brush strokes.
Cognitive - Relating to the processes of thinking and reasoning.
LLM - A large language model (LLM) is a type of AI program that recognises and generates text.
Derivative - Something based on another source or version.
Hybrid - A mixture of two distinct species that combine to form one organism.