Slopfest #96 · 2022 · Vienna

Count the Fingers

Anyone could type a prompt and get a painting, with excellent lighting and seven fingers.

#96Negative eaten by the office cat.

Obviously AI-generated group photo: guests with six to eleven fingers holding clickers, a sign in melted lettering almost reading SLOPFEST #96

Museum status: Rejected by three major museums. Framed anyway.

Venue: Albertina Modern, the main gallery
Attendance: 71,800
Fun fact: 4,100 images, 29,000 fingers, 0 hands correct

What happened

Every artwork on the walls came from a text prompt, and every person in every artwork had between four and eleven fingers. Guests were given clickers and asked to count. The committee's own fingers were counted as a control group and came in slightly high. ChatGPT launched thirty days later, making this the last Slopfest written by hand.

Elsewhere in 2022

Text-to-image tools DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion open to the public, famously struggling to draw human hands.

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