{"id":66989,"date":"2024-06-06T11:05:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T11:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/does-ai-steal-art-or-help-create-it-it-depends-on-who-you-ask\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T11:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T11:05:21","slug":"does-ai-steal-art-or-help-create-it-it-depends-on-who-you-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/does-ai-steal-art-or-help-create-it-it-depends-on-who-you-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"Does AI steal art or help create it? It depends on who you ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"997\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_Southen-One-Word-Prompt-Midjourney.png?resize=1440,997&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Does AI steal art or help create it? It depends on who you ask\" title=\"Does AI steal art or help create it? It depends on who you ask\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"video-embed\">\n<p>\u201cIt felt like magic.\u201d Joshua Vermillion was describing the first time he used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/scientists-say-artificial-intelligence-definition-pronunciation\">artificial intelligence<\/a>, or AI, to make an image.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"sn-conversion rich-text alignright\"\/>\n<p>Vermillion is an architect and designer who teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He creates artwork of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/joshuavermillion\/\" rel=\"noopener\">otherworldly spaces<\/a>. Before he started using AI to do this, Vermillion would make maybe 10 pieces in a year. Last year, though, he made around 150 works. \u201cI can just simply tell the computer what I want in plain English,\u201d he says. \u201cWhat a time to be alive!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many other artists, though, aren\u2019t so thrilled about AI-generated art. Katria Raden is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/katriaraden\/\" rel=\"noopener\">independent illustrator and author<\/a> based in Belgrade, Serbia and Berlin, Germany. People used to hire her regularly to create art for marketing materials or to illustrate children\u2019s books. Last year, almost no one reached out about these types of jobs. The rise of AI may help explain this. \u201cAt times I think it\u2019s a bad dream,\u201d she says. \u201cI feel scared and angry, but also pretty sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Katria Raden<strong> <\/strong>creates digital illustrations in her studio. When people create art, she says, \u201cour inspiration is colored through our personal lives, our emotions.\u201d She feels a sense of community and connection when she views human art. In contrast, bot art seems empty and meaningless to her.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Using AI to create an image is quick and easy. Popular image generators include Dall-E 3, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. They are cheap or even free to use. They also pose threats to some artists\u2019 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>But the problems go deeper than that. To train an AI model to produce images, developers need to show it a huge number of example images. Such a library of examples is called a data set. OpenAI, the creator of Dall-E 3, has kept its training data secret. But the company Stability.AI, which makes Stable Diffusion, shared its data set. It contains 2.3 <em>billion<\/em> images tagged with text. Midjourney reportedly used this same training data.<\/p>\n<p>These images were <em>scraped<\/em> from the internet. Data scraping automatically pulls files from webpages. Often, no one asks permission or checks what these files contain. Thousands of artists\u2019 names and works have been found in the data set. Illegal or harmful images and people\u2019s personal photos are also among those data.<\/p>\n<p>Raden doesn\u2019t like the way AI image generators were trained or how they\u2019re being used. \u201cIt\u2019s cheating and it\u2019s basically fraud,\u201d she says. Many artists agree with her. Their rallying cry on social media is \u201ccreate, don\u2019t scrape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vermillion sees their point. But for him, the rise of AI tools has been mostly positive. At design workshops he runs, he always asks people how they use AI in their work. He recalls one participant saying, \u201cSometimes I just need a creative partner that doesn\u2019t think like I do.\u201d AI, he feels, can play that role.<\/p>\n<p>AI image generators are getting more powerful. Some can now produce video. And they\u2019re easier than ever for more people to access. In the past, new forms of technology have led to new types of art. Can AI boost human creativity and storytelling? Or might it exploit and overshadow both?<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Catching copycats<\/h2>\n<p>AI image generators are supposed to produce brand-new pictures that don\u2019t belong to anybody. Yet they can mimic or even reproduce images from their training data. In 2022, one of the most popular prompts on Stable Diffusion was a name: Greg Rutkowski. He\u2019s a Polish artist who paints dramatic fantasy scenes, often with wizards and dragons. Stable Diffusion allowed people to make new images in his style.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"wp-block-sciencenews-inline-related-post alignright\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/lets-learn-about-artificial-intelligence\">Let\u2019s learn about artificial intelligence<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In the United States, copyright laws protect creators\u2019 ownership of creative works, including art, books, movies and popular characters. Using or copying someone else\u2019s creative work without their permission isn\u2019t allowed. So Rutkowski and a group of artists filed a lawsuit claiming that AI companies violated their copyright. Many similar lawsuits are ongoing as well.<\/p>\n<p>Reid Southen is an artist based in Detroit, Mich. He works on concept art for major movies, including <em>The<\/em> <em>Hunger Games<\/em> and <em>Blue Beetle<\/em>. His job is to design sets and illustrate key moments in a movie. Then the rest of the team works toward capturing that image on film.<\/p>\n<p>Southen isn\u2019t involved in any lawsuit. But, he says, \u201cI do know that my work is in the [training] data set.\u201d And if you\u2019ve ever uploaded a photo online, he says, \u201cthere\u2019s a good chance that your image may have ended up in one of these models or data sets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That bothers him a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Once, many years ago, Southen says, he took a trip to the Comic-Con convention with friends. \u201cWe had our car broken into and all our stuff stolen,\u201d he says. They had to drive more than two hours back home on a cold night with a broken window. What\u2019s happening now with AI image generators feels similar to him. \u201cIt\u2019s someone taking your stuff,\u201d he says. \u201cIt feels wrong, and there\u2019s nothing you can really do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Southen may feel powerless, but he\u2019s making his voice heard. He partnered with AI expert Gary Marcus to run some experiments in Midjourney and Dall-E 3.<\/p>\n<p>They got these AI models to spit out <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/midjourney-copyright\" rel=\"noopener\">copies of screenshots and characters from existing movies and video games<\/a>. They used short, vague prompts. The single word \u201cscreencap\u201d led to a variety of copyrighted content, says Southen. \u201cYou get Spider-Man \u2026 Elsa from <em>Frozen <\/em>\u2026 video games, too.\u201d The pair described their findings in <em>IEEE Spectrum<\/em> in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of their work was to point out that AI image generators will easily reproduce copyrighted content. The user doesn\u2019t even have to ask directly for it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span class=\"caption wp-caption-3140140\">How many of these characters do you recognize? Midjourney made these copyrighted characters in response to a one-word prompt, \u201cscreencap.\u201d This prompt doesn\u2019t work the same way anymore. The company likely fixed the issue in response to this type of testing.  <\/span><span class=\"credit wp-credit-3140140\">Gary Marcus and Reid Southen\/Midjourney<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rewriting laws<\/h2>\n<p>Midjourney\u2019s terms of service say that users may not use the tool to violate copyright. To Southen, putting this responsibility on users doesn\u2019t seem fair. His research shows that users may accidentally get copycat content without knowing.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, breaking this rule can get a user\u2019s Midjourney account shut down. This penalty happened to Southen three times while generating screenshots for his research. Each time, he paid for a new account so he could continue testing.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"wp-block-sciencenews-inline-related-post alignleft\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/?p=198995\">AI image generators tend to exaggerate stereotypes<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Southen says Midjourney\u2019s data set must contain the images it manages to copy. \u201cThey don\u2019t have permission to use that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/scientists-say-data\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"5385\">data<\/a>.\u201d This is the same thing that angers Raden and many other artists. Before feeding her work to an AI model, Raden says, \u201cthey should be required to ask me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People are generally allowed to use others\u2019 copyrighted work without asking if they aren\u2019t directly making money from it. They can use it for inspiration, research or analysis. For example, art students often copy other painters in their classes. And search engines like Google display links to copyrighted material in their results.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"360\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_swamp_critter_thing_joshuavermillion-360x450.png\" alt=\"a AI generated image of a spider plant structure in a swamp\" class=\"wp-image-3140148 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_swamp_critter_thing_joshuavermillion-360x450.png 360w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_swamp_critter_thing_joshuavermillion-306x383.png 306w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_swamp_critter_thing_joshuavermillion-149x186.png 149w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_swamp_critter_thing_joshuavermillion-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_swamp_critter_thing_joshuavermillion-1229x1536.png 1229w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_swamp_critter_thing_joshuavermillion-464x580.png 464w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_swamp_critter_thing_joshuavermillion-621x776.png 621w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_swamp_critter_thing_joshuavermillion.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\"\/><figcaption><span class=\"credit wp-credit-3140148\">J. Vermillion\/Midjourney<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Joshua Vermillion created this odd creature with Midjourney. Art, he believes, \u201calways requires a human touch and critical thinking.\u201d When people use AI to generate images, they should consider context, cultural awareness, ethics and empathy, he says.<\/h5>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>AI companies have argued that training AI technology on copyrighted images is a similar type of use. They don\u2019t think they should have to ask permission or pay copyright owners. If the courts decide that they do, \u201cI think we will see a slowdown in training AI in the U.S.,\u201d said Amir Ghavi, implying that such a change could hinder innovation and progress. Ghavi was speaking at a May 2024 conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. He\u2019s a lawyer who represents Stability.AI and many other AI companies.<\/p>\n<p>Image-generating AI did not exist when copyright laws were written. So governments and courts will have to decide who\u2019s right and who\u2019s wrong here. Japan\u2019s legal system has (for now) sided with the AI companies. In the United States, those legal battles are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just AI-generated images on trial. AI-generated articles, books, videos, voices and more are triggering controversy, too. During the summer of 2023, Hollywood screenwriters went on strike. They managed to get their industry to agree to a set of rules limiting how AI may be used in the creative-writing process.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cheat-sheet-cta is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Do you have a science question? We can help!<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/YbhPosFTMqjbSNnV7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Submit your question here<\/a>, and we might answer it an upcoming issue of\u00a0<em>Science News Explores<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cloaks and poison<\/h2>\n<p>Until new laws and rules get written, some people are taking matters into their own hands to protect human-made artwork from AI copycats.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"wp-block-sciencenews-inline-related-post alignright\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/collections\/artificial-intelligence\">See all the entries from our Artificial Intelligence story collection<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ben Y. Zhao led a team of computer scientists who worked closely with artists to develop a <a href=\"https:\/\/glaze.cs.uchicago.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener\">tool called Glaze<\/a>. It can \u201cprotect individual artists against people who want to train a model to mimic them,\u201d says Zhao. He is a professor at the University of Chicago in Illinois. Artists feed their original images through the tool and get back \u201cglazed\u201d copies to post online.<\/p>\n<p>Glaze is like a disguise that fools AI models. It \u201cconfuses them when they try to train,\u201d explains Shawn Shan. He\u2019s a PhD student who worked on the tool in Zhao\u2019s lab.<\/p>\n<p>When image-generating AI is training, it sorts pictures into a many-dimensional map. That\u2019s called a feature space. This map groups pictures with similar elements or styles closer together. The AI model later uses this map as a guide to generate new images.<\/p>\n<p>Glaze tricks an AI model into placing an image in the wrong place on the map. It alters the pixels of an image so it looks almost exactly the same to a human. But to an AI model, it seems to have an entirely different style.<\/p>\n<p>Glaze is free for artists. In its first year, says Zhao, it was downloaded 2.3 million times.<\/p>\n<p>Glaze helps artists defend their unique styles. But \u201cit doesn\u2019t do much to solve the bigger problem,\u201d he says. It doesn\u2019t stop AI companies from grabbing files without regard for ownership or copyright. So the team made another tool, called <a href=\"https:\/\/nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu\/whatis.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Nightshade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zhao describes it as \u201ca poison pill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nightshade doesn\u2019t just misplace things on an AI model\u2019s feature map. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2310.13828\" rel=\"noopener\">It scrambles the map itself<\/a>. For example, Nightshade alters images of cars to make them all seem (to an AI model) like one very specific cow. They still look like cars to people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce a model has seen enough of this,\u201d says Zhao, \u201cthey will be convinced that a car really does have four legs and a tail and a big white head with a nose.\u201d Nightshade also makes dogs seem like cats, hats seem like cakes and so on. It mixes up styles as well as objects.<\/p>\n<p>Zhao, Shan and their team discovered that adding just 100 \u201cpoisoned\u201d images of a concept to a set of 10,000 normal examples can mess up the AI model\u2019s training. And things got really wild when they poisoned hundreds of different concepts at once. In one test, they poisoned 250 different concepts with 100 altered images each.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cbreaks down\u201d the structure of the AI model, Zhao says. Afterwards, even if you ask for a concept that wasn\u2019t poisoned, all you get is \u201crandom gibberish,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Raden already uses Glaze and is excited about Nightshade, which came out in February 2024. In the future, she says, \u201cI will use it on all of my pieces for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Imagining a future for AI in art<\/h2>\n<p>Raden hopes that Nightshade will teach AI companies to ask permission before grabbing images. What if they take in poisoned data and their tool breaks? \u201cServes them right,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image  has-alignleft\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Strawberry_Possum_Katria_Raden-338x450.png\" alt=\"an illustration of a very teeny very cute baby possum hanging by it's tail from a strawberry stalk - strawberries and strawberry bloom frame the possum\" class=\"wp-image-3140138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Strawberry_Possum_Katria_Raden-338x450.png 338w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Strawberry_Possum_Katria_Raden-287x383.png 287w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Strawberry_Possum_Katria_Raden-140x186.png 140w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Strawberry_Possum_Katria_Raden-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Strawberry_Possum_Katria_Raden-435x580.png 435w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Strawberry_Possum_Katria_Raden-582x776.png 582w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Strawberry_Possum_Katria_Raden.png 1030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span class=\"caption wp-caption-3140138\">Katria Raden protected this and all her other digital images with Glaze. She plans to use Nightshade, too. Artists like her are having a tough time right now. But she believes human art eventually will win out over images generated using AI. \u201cWe as humanity will get through this,\u201d she says. <\/span><span class=\"credit wp-credit-3140138\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/katriaraden\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=73113ab2-f7ce-4cf2-8730-e471c1c55e7f\" rel=\"noopener\">K. Raden<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Zhao sees no value in AI generators of any kind. The only real impact he sees is that quality work has become harder to find. \u201cOn the internet, in e-book stores, on sound streams, anywhere that there is content, it is now being filled with trash,\u201d he says. Why? \u201cBecause it is so cheap to produce trash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Southen worries that art will suffer from a loss of human talent. \u201cIt just scares me,\u201d he says. \u201cIf things keep going this way, brand-new artists who might have a lot of really awesome or important things to say are just not going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To him, the best way to fix the situation is to start over. \u201cScrap the data set,\u201d he says. \u201cKill the models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone feels this way about AI\u2019s place in creative work. Some feel that creators will adjust and grow with AI just as they have with other new tech in the past. When photography was invented, some sketch artists and portrait painters lost work. But the new medium also led to new types of art. Vermillion notes that cameras \u201cfreed up\u201d artists to try new forms of expression.<\/p>\n<p>Southen doesn\u2019t buy this argument. \u201cPhotographers didn\u2019t steal from artists to make the technology work,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>Vermilion accepts that there are serious issues with image-generation AI that need to be worked out. He\u2019s glad artists are making their voices heard. \u201cWe need to enter the fray, use the tools, experiment with them and be critical of them,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1440\" height=\"707\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_Bazaar_digital_cover-1.png\" alt=\"a real-life model posing with an AI generated image\" class=\"wp-image-3140171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_Bazaar_digital_cover-1.png 1440w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_Bazaar_digital_cover-1-680x334.png 680w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_Bazaar_digital_cover-1-800x393.png 800w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_Bazaar_digital_cover-1-330x162.png 330w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_Bazaar_digital_cover-1-768x377.png 768w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_Bazaar_digital_cover-1-1030x506.png 1030w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1440_AI_and_art_Bazaar_digital_cover-1-1380x678.png 1380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span class=\"caption wp-caption-3140171\">Joshua Vermillion worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpersbazaar.rs\/moda\/trendovi\/harpers-bazaar-x-monize-imposible-is-possible\" rel=\"noopener\">Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/a> on a photo shoot that placed real models and clothing into AI-generated scenes.<\/span><span class=\"credit wp-credit-3140171\">Joshua Vermillion\/Mirko Taba\u0161evi\u0107\/Luka Ukropina\/Ana Ostoji\u0107\/Maja Mihajlovi\u0107<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But in his experience, AI is already making possible new types of creative work. Vermillion worked with <em>Harper\u2019s BAZAAR<\/em> magazine to do a shoot with real models and clothing but AI-generated landscapes and settings. He says they needed to involve more people than usual in the project, not fewer. \u201cEverything I\u2019ve worked on has not displaced any human labor,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Vermillion is also excited about AI\u2019s potential to help build a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/welcome-to-the-metaverse\">metaverse of virtual-reality experiences<\/a>. He\u2019s experimenting with AI tools to fill in hidden parts of his flat images and turn them into spaces in virtual reality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-57\">\n<p><h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Which of these AI-generated places would you most want to visit? Architect Joshua Vermillion created these using Midjourney. He\u2019s working on ways to turn such images into virtual-reality experiences.<\/h5>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He also appreciates that AI can stoke his imagination. \u201cI want to be surprised by the results,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Many other artists are finding interesting ways to incorporate AI into their work. Sondra Perry, an artist based in New Jersey, uses <a href=\"https:\/\/sondraperry.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">AI-generated images and video<\/a>. Agnieszka Pilat, a Polish-American artist based in San Francisco, Calif., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilatart.com\/b70\" rel=\"noopener\">works with robots to create art<\/a>. She sees them as \u201ccollaborators.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image  has-alignleft\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1030\" height=\"1544\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Agnieszka_Pilat.png\" alt=\"Agnieszka Pilat crouches next to a robot drawing with chalk as part of an art installation\" class=\"wp-image-3140145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Agnieszka_Pilat.png 1030w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Agnieszka_Pilat-255x383.png 255w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Agnieszka_Pilat-300x450.png 300w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Agnieszka_Pilat-124x186.png 124w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Agnieszka_Pilat-768x1151.png 768w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Agnieszka_Pilat-1025x1536.png 1025w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Agnieszka_Pilat-387x580.png 387w, https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1030_AI_and_art_Agnieszka_Pilat-518x776.png 518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span class=\"caption wp-caption-3140145\">Artist Agnieszka Pilat (pictured) says that using AI to mimic human art \u201cgot very boring already.\u201d She thinks this phase will pass. In the future, though, she imagines that robots might become artists. Her installation piece <em>Heterobota<\/em>, at the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia, involves robots that draw.<\/span><span class=\"credit wp-credit-3140145\">A. Pilat<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>AI can help artists be more productive or make new types of art. It also opens up the world of visual expression to people who don\u2019t have art skills or who can\u2019t afford to hire artists. Are these benefits worth all the downsides? That\u2019s up to us as a society to decide.<\/p>\n<p>Some are already finding better ways to build AI models. The company Adobe released an AI tool called Firefly in 2023. Adobe made sure they had permission to use all the images in the data set they used for training. Firefly also applies labels to generated images noting that they are made by AI.<\/p>\n<p>Explains Jingwan (Cynthia) Lu, a researcher at Adobe, the company realized it needed to \u201ccreate responsible AI.\u201d She spoke in May at the MIT conference.<\/p>\n<p>To Raden, art is a way to connect with other humans and to share experiences. When she finds out an image was AI-generated, it feels similar to finding out an athlete cheated. \u201cI do not want to enjoy generated content,\u201d she says. \u201cI want art.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"sn-conversion rich-text\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/ai-art-artists-image-generators-steal-create\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt felt like magic.\u201d Joshua Vermillion was describing the first time he used artificial intelligence, or AI, to make an image. 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