How artists and critics think AI art will transform the industry | Art Works
Summary
TLDRThe script delves into the burgeoning field of AI-generated art, exploring its rapid evolution and the ethical dilemmas it presents. It discusses the ease with which AI can mimic existing art styles, raising questions about originality and the essence of art as human expression. Highlighting the work of artists like Sam Leach, who incorporate AI in their creative process, the script also addresses concerns about AI biases and intellectual property rights. It ponders the future of artists in the face of AI advancements, suggesting a need for legal and ethical frameworks to guide this technological shift.
Takeaways
- ๐ค Artificial intelligence, particularly in visual art, is experiencing rapid advancements that could redefine the field.
- ๐จ AI's presence in art is not new, but recent developments have made it more accessible and controversial, challenging traditional notions of art.
- ๐ฅ๏ธ AI image generators like DALL-E 2 allow users to create unique images by inputting text prompts, raising questions about the role of human creativity.
- ๐ The ease of generating visually appealing images with AI has led to a surge in 'Fanboy art' and style reproductions, blurring the lines between originality and imitation.
- ๐ค AI technology is evolving quickly, with new programs and capabilities emerging that can produce a wide range of artistic outputs.
- ๐ญ Some artists, like Sam Leach, are integrating AI into their creative process to explore non-human perspectives and broaden human understanding.
- ๐ง AI's ability to learn from data sets and generate art raises concerns about biases in the AI models, which reflect the data they were trained on.
- ๐ Intellectual property issues arise as AI-generated art can replicate styles and use data without consent, potentially infringing on copyrights.
- ๐ฎ The future of art and artists is uncertain as AI's capabilities grow, with some fearing replacement of human labor in creative fields.
- โ๏ธ The legal and ethical implications of AI in art are complex and require further exploration to ensure fair use and recognition of original creators.
Q & A
What is the current perception of AI's role in art creation?
-AI's role in art creation is seen as transformative and potentially revolutionary, with the technology progressing at a rate that is hard to fathom, affecting various fields from visual art to music and poetry.
How did AI first enter the art world?
-AI first entered the art world in 2018 when an AI-created portrait was sold at auction, marking a significant milestone in the integration of AI and art.
What are the three main AI image generators mentioned in the script?
-The script does not specify the names of the three main AI image generators, only mentioning that there are three main players in the field, with many big tech companies working on their own versions.
What ethical issues have arisen due to the use of AI in art?
-The use of AI in art has raised ethical issues such as biases in AI models, intellectual property concerns, and the potential for AI to reproduce styles of established artists without consent or compensation.
How does the AI art generator 'dally' work?
-The AI art generator 'dally' works by using keywords or prompts input by the user to draw from billions of images scraped from the internet to generate a unique piece of art.
What is the significance of the AI-generated portrait that sold at auction in 2018?
-The AI-generated portrait that sold at auction in 2018 was significant because it was the first AI-created artwork to be sold, indicating a shift in the perception and value of AI-generated art.
What is the role of human interaction in AI art creation?
-Human interaction is crucial in AI art creation, as it is the human input of prompts and parameters that guide the AI to generate specific images, thus making the human a co-creator in the process.
How does AI artist Sam Leach use AI in his art-making process?
-Sam Leach uses AI by feeding a data set of images into a custom-made AI program, which then generates images that he paints, allowing him to reimagine and translate the AI's output into a more fully finished painting.
What are the potential implications of AI-generated art for professional artists and illustrators?
-AI-generated art could potentially disrupt the work of professional artists and illustrators by offering quick and easy alternatives to traditional art creation, raising questions about the value and authenticity of human-created art.
What are the concerns regarding biases in AI models used for art generation?
-Concerns regarding biases in AI models include the reflection of racial and gender assumptions in the generated art, which can perpetuate stereotypes and skewed perspectives due to the data sets used to train the AI.
How does the script suggest the art world should approach AI-generated art?
-The script suggests that the art world should engage with AI-generated art by understanding its capabilities and limitations, addressing ethical concerns, and considering the legal implications to ensure a responsible and creative integration of AI in art.
Outlines
๐ค The Rise of AI in Art
The paragraph discusses the pervasive influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in various sectors, including visual arts. AI, which has been developing since the 1960s, is now integrated into our daily lives through robotics, surveillance, and voice assistance. The rapid advancements in AI, particularly in generating visual images, have led to significant cultural impacts. The paragraph highlights the historical entry of AI into the art world in 2018 with the first AI-created portrait sold at auction. It also mentions the recent controversies and ethical dilemmas posed by AI image generators, which have become more accessible and are being developed by major tech companies. The narrative continues with a first-person account of using an AI art site called 'dally too,' where simple keyword prompts can generate unique pieces of art, raising questions about the authenticity and originality of AI-generated art.
๐จ AI Art: Creativity or Reproduction?
This paragraph delves into the debate surrounding AI-generated art and its classification as 'art.' It presents the perspective of Hillary Camperland, a motion design and 3D animation director, who discusses the ease of creating visually appealing pieces using AI tools. The paragraph contrasts the reproduction of existing works, often fan art or style mimicry, with the potential for AI to create novel and unseen imagery. It emphasizes the role of human interaction in shaping AI output, suggesting that AI is merely a tool extended by human creativity. The discussion also touches on the ethical and legal challenges of AI art, including intellectual property rights and the potential biases in AI models, which reflect the data used to train them. The paragraph concludes with the view that AI art should not be dismissed as inhuman but rather seen as a product of human ingenuity.
๐ค The Future of Human Creativity in the Age of AI
The final paragraph contemplates the future implications of AI on artistic professions, particularly the potential displacement of human labor by AI. It raises concerns about the value of learning traditional artistic skills in a world where AI can quickly generate art. The paragraph suggests that AI's rapid development might necessitate a reevaluation of legal and ethical frameworks to protect artists' rights. It also speculates on the inevitability of AI's integration into art creation, questioning whether resistance or adaptation is the best approach for artists. The narrative concludes with a hypothetical scenario where even the show itself could be replaced by an AI-generated equivalent, reflecting on the profound and imminent changes AI might bring to the creative industry.
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Keywords
๐กArtificial Intelligence (AI)
๐กVisual Art
๐กAI Image Generators
๐กEthical Worms
๐กHuman Expression
๐กIntellectual Property
๐กAlgorithmic Assistance
๐กPrompts
๐กAI Artist
๐กBias in AI
Highlights
AI is not just having a 'moment' but is experiencing an existential shift in its development and impact.
AI has been in development since the 1960s, but recent advancements have made it ubiquitous in various fields.
AI is now present in robotics, surveillance, face recognition, voice assistance, and even creative fields like music and poetry.
The rate of AI progress is hard to comprehend, especially in the realm of visual art.
AI's infiltration into the art world began in 2018 with the first AI-created portrait sold at auction.
AI image generators have become more accessible and are being developed by major tech companies.
The ethical implications of AI art are being questioned, challenging the definition of art itself.
AI art can be easily generated by entering keywords or prompts into AI sites like DALL-E 2.
Most AI-generated art tends to reproduce existing works or styles rather than create original content.
Understanding how to use prompts effectively can lead to the creation of unique and never-before-seen art.
Hillary Camper, a motion design and 3D animation director, discusses her experience with AI tech.
AI art can be seen as a tool for artists to extend their creativity and produce new works.
The debate on whether AI-generated images can be considered 'Art' is a central point of contention.
AI is a product of human creation, written and curated by humans, thus linked to human expression.
Sam Leach, an artist, uses AI to explore non-human perspectives and broaden our understanding of the world.
AI models may reflect biases present in the data they were trained on, including racial and gender stereotypes.
Intellectual property issues arise as AI-generated art can replicate styles of existing artists without consent.
The future of artists and illustrators is uncertain as AI technology advances rapidly.
The legal and ethical considerations of AI in art need to be addressed as the technology progresses.
AI's impact on the art world is inevitable, and it may change the way people think about art creation.
Transcripts
it's tempting to say that artificial
intelligence is having as they say a
moment but that would be really
underselling it there's something going
on that feels existential this
technology has been in development since
the 60s but today AI is all around us
from robotics surveillance face
recognition and voice assistance to deep
folks and AI composed music poetry even
screenplays
it seems to be progressing at a rate
that is truly hard to Fathom and nowhere
is this more apparent than in the realm
of visual art the development of AI that
we've seen explode over the last year
does have the potential to be a
watershed moment in the creation of
visual images
and the kind of effective that could
have on culture AI first infiltrated the
art World in 2018 when this work became
the first AI created portrait to sell at
auction fetching a tidy sum in the
process
then a few months ago a Us game designer
controversially won a state art prize
using some heavy algorithmic assistance
for this work
the recently pin quality and
accessibility has come about due to the
latest batch of AI image generators
there are currently three main players
but many of the big tech companies are
working on their own versions and it's
smashed open a can of ethical worms
testing the parameters and the Very
definition of art itself but before we
dive into the moral complexities of AI
art let's try to make some
okay so I've just logged into one of the
latest AI sites this one's called dally
too and apparently all you have to do is
type in a bunch of keywords also known
as prompts and it'll draw from billions
of images scraped from the internet to
generate your very own work of art
all right
future hours
playing table tennis
Style
so what I've discovered is that it's
remarkably easy to make something
eye-catching even interesting that also
happens to be something I'm not really
comfortable calling capital a art and
this is fairly indicative of what's out
there
foreign
most of the work that's being produced
is sort of Fanboy art that it's about
reproducing stuff that already exists so
you've got people trying to reproduce
you know Keanu Reeves I don't know why
he's so popular but he is or there's
like this kind of fetishist stuff with
like Halle Berry and then there's a kind
of level where people are intentionally
trying to reproduce the style of say an
illustrator or an artist that seems like
a bit of a dead end to me and then the
next level is where people are trying to
use these tools to produce things that
have never been seen before because if
you train yourself to understand how to
enter the prompts
then you can get incredible results
I'm Hilary from
sick weird AI
Hillary Camperland is a director with a
background in motion design and 3D
animation who's immersed herself in the
recent way of AI Tech so often to make a
prompt work out well it sort of has to
be a bit like an over egged coffee order
you have to produce a long string of
texts so this one for instance is lots
of 3D Twisted animal balloons hairy
octopus collectible toy large eyes
glasses this one above here was a
porcelain sculpture of a futuristic
Woman made of splashing flowing twisting
milk
I really like the ability to create
anything you want it has that sort of
instant gratification to it every week
there is something new with this
technology you know new programs that do
new things yeah it's it's moving very
fast part of Hillary's interest in the
tech is sharing images and ideas with
the wider AI community so let's start
with Beth Frey so she's a visual artist
from Montreal and I love her work
because it's just absolutely bonkers
there's a guy in Melbourne who's an
architect so and I really liked what he
was creating and I could really tell
that his prompts came from the fact that
he was an architect in the first place
so there's people doing all sorts of
things with it and it tends to be just
just because just because we enjoy what
it what it makes so would you call
yourself an AI artist definitely not
definitely not I mean
you've got to admit that at least 80 of
what's going on is still the computer
Hillary's response here leads us to one
of the main flash points in the AI
debate can an image made by algorithms
actually be called Art or does it take
us further away from a common idea of
what art is all about human expression
I'm fine with this being labeled R
because to me art is a word that's
extremely malleable and it can be
applied to anything it doesn't have a
value judgment attached to it in my view
a lot of people look at AI as this kind
of inhuman thing that produces uncanny
images that have no connection to the
world I feel like that is undervaluing
or ignoring the fact that AI is produced
by humans it is a software that has been
written and created and curated by
humans now the AI doesn't do anything
until you interact with it we're not
looking at the technology just sitting
there on its own creating culture we're
doing it we're the ones who are
producing it
the thing that excites me is where an
artist
or a filmmaker or whoever brings their
their eye their aesthetic their approach
and uses that tool to to extend it and
to create new things this is actually a
slime mold sitting inside inside a
helmet and like the slime molds I find
interesting because that's Sam Leach is
an artist who's won both the win and
Archibald prizes he's always been drawn
to the intersection between science and
art and a few years ago started using AI
as part of his art making process
so that's as it was generated by the
computer yeah that's then been
translated into the more fully finished
painting
for a 2020 exhibition titled fully
automatic Sam decided to let AI
determine what he should paint next that
process involved feeding a data set of
images consisting of his own paintings
plus picture Source from art history
science and architecture into a custom
made AI program then painting some of
the images that emerged so they're quite
pixelated yeah what I ultimately found
was for making paintings that low
resolution was more helpful it allowed
me more scope to reimagine what was
being presented because I still want to
have the handmade quality of the of the
painting that's important so it
essentially leaves more up to your
imagination yeah
I'm really interested in non-human
perspectives on the world so looking at
how animals see the world or you know
now that it seems to be possible for how
machines see the world and using those
perspectives to broaden our own our own
view so being able to take that that
mathematical intuition and combine it
with my own biological intuition I think
produces something something interesting
Sam's latest exhibition titled
everything will probably be fine looked
more critically at the very AI models
being used and how they might shape the
future
the big models are owned by just a
handful of Mega corporations reflecting
a fairly small mindset and a fairly
small approach to to building these
building these models so there's
definitely going to be a bias and a skew
happening
such biases including racial and gender
assumptions are reflective of the very
data sets that have been used to teach
the AI which means that stereotypes we'd
hoped to leave in the past might be
recurring under our noses
that's been massively accelerated by by
AI which is kind of fascinating and
scary and that's a vital role of artists
to explore that and expose it and help
us help us to understand it bias in AI
is one problem another huge issue is
intellectual property that's because
these data sets include people's faces
and artists work all scraped from the
internet under the guise of research so
it's all too easy to lift the style of
an established artist without consent or
compensation
so you can copy the French comic artist
Mobius almost exactly or the or Chris
Foss covers from 70 sci-fi paperbacks or
you can copy you know Japanese manga
artists if you're just doing it in
tribute fine it just lives on the
internet what happens next though is the
question because
are you going to try and pass it off as
their work are you going to try and pass
it off as your own original output
you can be sued for copyright and
infringement if you recreate the work of
an artist not copying their work but
doing it in the style of okay so there's
a few you know warning signs on the road
and what if the road ahead for artists
and in particular illustrators whose
labor might easily be replaced by a few
prompts in a well-oiled machine the
technology is moving so fast that even
in the time it's taken us to make this
story there have been some major
upgrades including text to video I feel
like for certain professions producing
artworks in a commercial setting that
could be it could be problematic but on
the other hand these things always have
a way of of generating their their own
work there will be certain jobs that
could just you know you can create the
work so much quicker in AI there's still
a human element that I don't think the
computers can quite touch it does worry
me a little bit that
what happens if children in the future
decide that it's not worth learning how
to draw because well I can just prompt
something so quickly designers that I
know are resistant to using it but for
me it's a question of you know is it
coming regardless should we be ahead of
the curve and trying to get on top of it
or or should we be resisting it as
artists it's a good question
I think that the legal side of it needs
to be worked out I think there needs to
be an ethical sort of relationship
between this technology and artists who
are working in the world already I think
it has to prompt a change in the way
people think about the creation of art
it can't be stopped it's just inevitable
in some ways even this show could be
completely replaced by an AI facsimile
within say two years
well then
I guess that's it from me
see you on the other side
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