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draebek | 19 days ago

I just actually thought that many of the great artists absolutely did paint, sculpt, or draw their creations "by hand", themselves. I suppose they used tools: the brush, chisel, pencil. Not sure how comparable those are to having an LLM write code for you.

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CamperBob2|19 days ago

The reality is that many if not most of the big names had apprentices who did a lot of the actual work. Art historians spend a lot of time arguing about whether a given Leonardo was really a product of Leonardo's hand, for example.

This quick-and-dirty prompt returns results in line with my own understanding (which of course doesn't necessarily mean the exact figures are correct): https://chatgpt.com/share/698ce93b-b66c-800b-9e41-91ccab8eba... The artist I was primarily thinking of when I wrote that comment was Chihuly, whose workshop is famously more like a factory than a studio.