Oxford scholar: a photo holds ~42 bytes of info, so is AI art art?
Oxford researcher Toby Ord argues a photo contains only about 42 bytes of information, like a lossy compression format, and that a text prompt carries roughly as much information as pressing a shutter—leading him to reconsider his earlier view that AI-generated images aren't human art.
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