BETA
Chapter 1
The pioneers who painted with code
Chapter 2
The million-dollar prompt
Chapter 3
When math becomes beautiful
Chapter 4
The battle for the soul of art
Ch 2 · The million-dollar prompt
andy French collective Obvious created Portrait of Edmond de Belamy using a Generative Adversarial Network trained on 15,000 portraits and signed with a formula.
Quiz
What was used as the artist's signature on the bottom right corner of the 'Portrait of Edmond de Belamy'?
Quiz
Which famous auction house sold the AI-generated 'Portrait of Edmond de Belamy' in 2018?
andy Galleries hired draftspeople to transform LeWitt's written instructions into physical wall drawings
Quiz
Which 1960s conceptual artist famously sold written instructions for wall drawings instead of physical paintings?
Fun Fact
The signature formula: The signature on the bottom of the Edmond de Belamy painting is actually part of the algebraic formula for the GAN algorithm that created it!
Quiz
Which AI image generators are commonly targeted by prompt engineers selling on modern marketplaces?
Quiz
What is the primary product sold on the online marketplace PromptBase, which launched in 2022?
Glossary
prompt (noun)
A natural language instruction used to direct the output of a generative artificial intelligence system. In 2023, a contemporary art gallery made history by exhibiting and selling a single generative text instruction.
A natural language instruction used to direct the output of a generative artificial intelligence system. In 2023, a contemporary art gallery made history by exhibiting and selling a single generative text instruction.
Quiz
How many hours did artist Jason Allen spend fine-tuning prompts and editing his award-winning AI piece?
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What is the title of the controversial AI-generated artwork that won first place at the Colorado State Fair in 2022?