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The Portrait of Edmund De Bellamy
The Portrait of Edmund De Bellamy was created by artificial intelligence. It's not the most beautiful painting in the world, but it is famous for being the first to be sold at auction. The book ends sort of discussing this and thinking, well, what does this mean for art? Are we sometime in the future going to war past an art gallery that is going to be purely a display of artificially created artworks? Is that any threat to human creativity?
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