The Back of the Painting
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
The Back of the Painting In museums you only ever see the face. But the real story of a painting is on the back. Stretcher bars yellowed by century-old glue. Stamps from auction houses gone bankrupt. A pencil note: 'From the estate of M., 1953.' Wax seals. Tape someone applied in panic during a war and forgot to remove. The back is where the painting kept its diary. I've been thinking about what it means that AI generates only fronts.