Generative Artist Says LLMs Can Clone His Work
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A generative artist writes that people used large language models to recreate his own algorithm with startling accuracy, raising the question of what advantage remains when anyone with a $20 LLM subscription can clone his portfolio. He also recounts the case of artist Mannay, who spent a year on a project only to see it "vibe coded in 20 minutes by Sonnet." The artist draws his own boundary in response: coding is art, so his work is authored by him rather than by agents. The account is his own description of what happened; it does not establish how widely such cloning occurs or how closely the recreated algorithms matched the originals.
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A generative artist describes discovering that people used LLMs to recreate his own algorithm with startling accuracy, raising the question of what advantage remains when anyone with a $20 LLM subscription can clone his portfolio. He recounts artist Mannay, who spent a year on a project only to see it vibe coded "in 20 minutes by Sonnet," and sets out his own boundary: coding is art, so his work is authored by him, not agents.
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