Artist working with new media + AI. 20. 
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left: the "AI generated" portrait Christie's is auctioning off right now right: outputs from a neural network I trained and put online *over a year ago*. Does anyone else care about this? Am I crazy for thinking that they really just used my network and are selling the results?pic.twitter.com/wAdSOe7gwz
I've been trying to play it off and spin it positively - when news people have asked me about this event I usually just try and mention actual AI artists and say to check out their work instead, but this is *really* becoming incredibly upsetting.
Read this article if you want a more in-depth view on this;https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/23/18013190/ai-art-portrait-auction-christies-belamy-obvious-robbie-barrat-gans …
Here's the code to the network they copied. If any of you guys want to make a quick $10,000 from my work, now is the perfect time.https://github.com/robbiebarrat/art-dcgan …
bonus: here's a thread where Caselles (A member of the said "art collective") is bothering me about my pre-trained models on github, and asking for help getting them working. If this isn't suggestive that they used my models i really don't know what is.https://github.com/robbiebarrat/art-DCGAN/issues/3#event-1405431136 …
If it is actually a sample from your exact model you should be able to precisely recover the corresponding latest vector. https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04782 cc @zacharylipton @subarnaT
Might provide some strong evidence in your favor and set an interesting precedent.
ccing @dribnet since he's the one who generated the images on the right using my network
Here is a video of the training process of Edmond, showing we did not use pre-trained models.pic.twitter.com/SfYYx5KZjI
wow this is totally bullshit. is there anyone we can contact?
I can't think of anyone besides @ChristiesInc themselves - although it might be too late, and i don't know if they check mentions... I guess just RT and hope someone important sees it.
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