What Makes AI Art Worth Collecting?
In May, an anonymous artist who goes by SHL0MS on X posted that he had used AI to generate an image inspired by Claude Monet and asked people to weigh in on how it missed the mark. More than 600 responses called out issues, saying the colors were off, the depth was all wrong, and that AI didn’t understand how light worked. SHL0MS then revealed that the image was of a real Monet, one of around 250 variations of water lilies the artist had painted in his lifetime. He had simply downloaded a high-r
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Published: 7 July 2026
Source: IEEE Spectrum
Category: News
Topics: Environment
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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