2023: The art world hurtles towards an AI-powered apocalypse at the hands of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and dozens of other image generators. But GPT3’s vise-like grip on humanity’s imagination is not perfect. One might say that it doesn’t quite grasp how certain parts of the human anatomy work.

You might even call it a bit underhanded.

Whatever the case, it’s only a matter of time before AI sticks its fingers into every corner of our lives, but for now, at least we can celebrate a few areas where human artists still win, hands down.

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This cinemagraph is painted and animated by Luis Buenaventura ("Cryptopop") with score composed and performed by Marco Palinar ("Illiminal"). Buenaventura is one of the world's first NFT artists, with the 2017 MyCurioCards collection. His work has been sold at Christie's, Sotheby's, NiftyGateway, Makersplace, and Foundation. The original score written by Palinar for this piece has been reprocessed using the AI music generator Jukebox.