jmn on BudgetPixel

TTRPG_Player

Cool idea and image!

panos

Memorable and inventive work!!

legion

good one!

jmn

@archangeltara I hate to say it but, everyone knows when crisis hits, the first thing to go is funding to the arts [current fiscal models for AI-gen companies aren't looking promising]. Art auctions of that kin aren't stable economies that benefit the wider population of any nation let alone small communities of starving artists; they are run by and catered to the absurdly rich for fun at best and money laundering at worst. It's cool that your products sold; all artists should thrive while they can and have their expressions realised and recognised. I'm not active on NC atm.

archangeltara

It doesn’t really “detract” from that point—because the comparison is doing two different kinds of work. The fact that the Mona Lisa is unsigned doesn’t mean “signature is irrelevant to art value” in general. It reflects a very specific historical and cultural context: in Renaissance Europe, many artists didn’t routinely sign works, and attribution came through workshop records, patronage, and later scholarly analysis. The painting is still firmly attributed to Leonardo da Vinci not because of an auction price, but because of centuries of art historical consensus. AI art auction values, on the other hand, are operating in a modern market system where price is influenced by novelty, speculation, controversy, scarcity, and branding. A high auction price doesn’t function as proof of authorship or artistic legitimacy—it reflects demand and narrative around the object. So rather than undermining the “unsigned Mona Lisa” idea, AI art actually highlights the difference between:

archangeltara

Beautiful work