The family of a deceased artist is leveraging his legacy and style to market AI art.
A famous artist who died in 2019 is now seeing his artworks being fed to generative AI, with the results being sold online in association...
A famous artist who died in 2019 is now seeing his artworks being fed to generative AI, with the results being sold online in association with his name. The sellers are his own family members, who say it is “legal” and “ethical”. Leonid Afremov, a Belarus-born artist, died six years ago aged 64. Afremov was an Impressionist artist known for vivid, colourful paintings mostly depicting nature. He mostly created his works with oil on canvas and a palette knife. Screengrab from afremov.com. May 8, 2024. Yesterday, Jon Neimeister, who’s the lead artist for Blizzard’s Hearthstone video game, discovered that family...