Whether the ethical implications are good or bad, AI-generated artwork is here and its on the rise.
What is AI artwork?
Artificial intelligenceis the field of science which works to build machines that mimic human intelligence through algorithms.
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And simply put,AI artworkis any artwork created through the use of AI.
ManyAI art generatorsare text-to-image, meaning the rules that artists create are written prompts.
Artists can use other descriptors such as telephoto or hyperrealistic to create different results.
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When did AI art begin?
However, the creative app of AI really became its own in the 2010s.
With that, the floodgates were opened.
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Why is AI artwork controversial?
The possibilities of AI are seemingly endless, and the program of this technology onto art is no exception.
It’s these powers that make AI artwork so polarizing, becausewhatexactly is beingcreated?
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This means that everyone from Picasso to small, independent contemporary artists are not exempt from AI’s analyzations.
Mason continues, We strive to find the balance between innovating and helping the community.
Its system is accessed entirely through Discord.
With over4 million userssince its release in July 2022, Midjourney’s rise to popularity is an exponential one.
Architecture studentQasim Iqbalutilizes Midjourney to help him visualize his grand, fantastical architectural designs.
It could add but it should never be the originator of the idea.
DALLE 2 is another text-to-image generator, with some incredible results.
I used@OpenAI#dalle2to create the first ever AI-generated magazine cover for@Cosmopolitan!!
Allen printed the piece on canvas and entered it into the Colorado State Fair’s digital art category.
Enter Angus Russell’sNightCafe Creator, launched in 2019 and named after VincentVan Gogh’sThe Night Cafe.
The team is dedicated to providing access to art creation to all, not to make artists redundant.
In response to DALLE’s success, in February 2022, theyinterviewedartistzenElanfor his secrets to creating fantastical works.
Previously a photographer, zenElan now creates otherworldly artworks using NightCafe Creator.
As for zenElan’s opinion about AI art’s role in society, he’s less sure.
The installation seeks to interpret and transform more than 200 years of art from MoMAs collection.
The AI generators pull data from billions of images across the internet.
The AI learns to recognize the connections between the images and their descriptions, not the artworks.
This way the model develops operational principles that can be applied to content generation.
