shall we just let ai make the art?

🚫 Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence-gen­er­at­ed art ⁉️

As an artist, I’ve seen a lot of protest against AI works in cre­ators’ com­mu­ni­ties late­ly ⛔️

But out­side of this cir­cle, I also see peo­ple de­fend­ing the lat­est progress in the field. 

So, what is my per­son­al opinion?

Let’s start with the pos­i­tives: Be­fore ethics came up, I had fun with the free apps that would gen­er­ate pictures.

And they near­ly al­ways failed. But see­ing the ran­dom­ness pre­sent­ed – and some of the small de­tails from what you have asked it to do – was curious. 

For ex­am­ple, the apps that turned your self­ies into paint­ings – they nev­er made me think of them as a threat, be­cause they look more like filters.

Then, there was idea that AI might help with vi­su­al­iza­tions of ideas a per­son couldn’t do on their own. This is a big pos­i­tive on one hand, but could also be seen as bad for artists.

I am re­fer­ring to both the eco­nom­i­cal side, and the growth of cre­ators as a whole. 

While I am quite sure large com­pa­nies will – for now – not want to ruin their rep­u­ta­tions by us­ing au­to­gen­er­at­ed ideas in­stead of real minds, even­tu­al­ly crafts­man­ship it­self will suf­fer. It usu­al­ly does. Quick and easy al­ways wins. 

But so far, many artists have had their styles sam­pled by AI soft­ware, which can make artists ques­tion if their work should be even be post­ed on­line at all. 

No com­mu­ni­ca­tion, no con­sent, AI has be­come an­oth­er way around pay­ing artists for their work. Out­right shame­less steal­ing. With artists’ in­come – and mo­ti­va­tion – affected. 

De­vel­op­ing skills, vi­sion and a style takes years of hard work, ex­per­i­men­ta­tion and fo­cus. These fac­tors, along with luck, will de­ter­mine if one can ded­i­cate them­selves to their passion. 

How­ev­er, with a near­ly mag­i­cal AI in­ter­face, “art” just happens.

To sum up, ma­chines will nev­er be able to put their soul into art. 

Tho – as hu­mans, are we even ca­pa­ble to see that which is spir­i­tu­al in art – or do we even need to un­der­stand it? 

I am hop­ing that in­ner beau­ty al­ways finds the hearts that strive for it. ❤️

 

—pur­ples­finx

Flom­mist Veroni­ka Veziro­va, a.k.a. Pur­ples­finx, is an il­lus­tra­tor and graph­ic de­sign­er based in Barcelona. In­spired by cul­ture of all kinds, she writes on top­ics that in­clude art his­to­ry, cre­ativ­i­ty and folk­lore. Her oth­er works in­clude man­ga and psy­che­del­ic po­et­ry. Copy­right © 2023 Veroni­ka Vezirova.

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