Today I learned about the Integrated Collections Database of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Japan, (ColBase) where you can find treasures like THIS!!
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I don't understand why anyone (my boss) needs to AI generate random "art" for "decoration" of, say, sad PowerPoint slides when museums across the world has the actual art the plagiarism machine was trained on and imitates poorly free to use!
About ColBase
About ColBase: Integrated Collections Database of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Japan
ColBase is a database containing the collections of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Japan. It encompasses the four National Museums in Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, and Kyushu, the two National Research Institutes for Cultural Properties in Tokyo and Nara, and the Museum of the Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan.
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