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  • Incredibly off-putting name for a search tool
    by mcmcmc
  • https://www.europeana.eu/en indexes 60 million museum objects in Europe, although that includes objects that aren't artworks.

    (I suspect The Last Museum is using the same open data exports.)

    by Symbiote
  • I tried searching for "holofernes" and got many paintings not-of-but-aesthetically-similar-to Judith beheading Holofernes. I then typed directly "judith and holofernes" and got similarly undesired results. I know that I'm "holding it wrong" here, but this might not be the last museum after all.
    by BugsJustFindMe
  • The title assumes that the point of a museum is simple being able to see the work; it ignores the interpretive benefits of a curated exhibit.
    by timdiggerm
  • "Art Deco" search is _terrific_

    https://lastmuseum.com/search?q=art%20deco

    by billbrown
  • I used the same concept to build a searchable database of YouTube thumbnails in my watch history. I always end up trying to remember a video I didn't finish from a week or two ago and YouTube's history search plain sucks. So I built an app that tracks all my watch history across all devices, downloads the thumbnails and runs them through a local Gemma model to write a paragraph description and OCR any text in the thumbnail.

    Currently at 30,000 thumbnails described, basically 2 years of watch history. Search is via FTS5 in SQLite and works great on an 8 year old MacBook Pro.

    by cj00
  • So much is missing (e.g. "Group of Seven" yields nonsensical results). Nice idea, but probably needs a couple of orders of comprehensiveness to be anything close to justifying it's name :-)
    by floathub
  • I was thinking of doing something like this myself. I've been pondering how to use AI to support, rather than subordinate, human work. Instead of using AI-generated artworks for blog posts and press releases, it would be better to use AI to "intelligently" search across humanity's collective oeuvre and find artwork relevant to the accompanying text. Once the AI hype dies down a little, it would be worth thinking about how we can highlight or enhance human creativity instead of downright replacing it.
    by 8s2ngy

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