ROME — Renaissance artist Vicente De Antonio put the finishing touches on a new painting that he hoped would someday be used to train AI on how to recreate Renaissance paintings.
De Antonio sat back with a sigh of satisfaction, looking at his latest masterpiece, happy to know that one day his painstaking work would be used to train some sort of advanced technology to make his work completely obsolete.
"Ah, yes. Its-a good-a painting," De Antonio said with satisfaction. "I think I really mastered the tone of my subjects and the chiaroscuro lighting with-a the contrast of-a the light and-a the dark. I'm-a glad-a to know that some-a day, my entire life's work will be replaced by some sort of mechanical human brain."
De Antonio's masterpiece, which he titled "The Ascension Of Wisdom," depicts, in brilliant detail, the scene of Athena's birth springing forth from the head of Zeus. He told friends the work had taken him 16 years to complete and that he had missed the births and deaths of all 8 of his children while focusing on its creation. He said he was happy to know that someday a computer would be able to recreate what he did in 3 seconds.
"It's a nice painting," AI engineer Doug Porter told his coworkers. "It's a good one to use to train our new AI model. We need to figure out how to have art generation replicate this style without having to take up too much data. Users should be able to recreate something like this in seconds. Thanks, divinely talented master artist from the past!"
At publishing time, another ChatGPT user figured out how to reproduce all of Mozart's compositions but with a sick DubStep beat.
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