I’m going to be honest, this is a truly terrible idea. Do you have any idea the potential legal exposure you have with this product? If you’re serious about pursuing this, take the site offline and call a lawyer right now.

I’m sure there’s some dataset out there, but I don’t have it offhand. If you want to try building your own, pandas-datareader is a nice wrapper on the yahoo finance api that allows you to get any ticker symbol you want for a specified date range.

I don’t mean this in a negative way, but if you’re concerned about AI completely supplanting human art, then you have a limited view of art.

Part of what makes great art is the intentionality and story behind it - take the abstract art movement. Most pieces aren’t technically difficult to create, but the representation and symbolism are what make the pieces so captivating.

There will always be a demand for human created art, just as there will always be a demand for naturally occurring gemstones. We can grow perfect diamonds in a lab for a fraction of the price of naturally occurring ones, yet people are still drawn to natural ones despite their flaws and imperfections.