This artist’s work has been shown at MoMA. Now it’s training AI

Michael Hafftka has uploaded thousands of his paintings to Hugging Face, arguing that if AI models are going to learn from artists, they should learn from the full body of work.

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BY Chris Stokel-Walker

Over the course of his 50 years in the art world, Michael Hafftka’s figurative expressionist work has been exhibited at many of the world’s most prominent galleries. His paintings have hung at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Sauf Gallery in Paris. Now, his work is being presented in a more unusual place: on Hugging Face, the AI........

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