Will AI Art Help or Hurt Artists?

1. Create images from text.2. Create images from rough sketches. 3. Extend images beyond their borders.

AI tools like DALLE-2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion can generate detailed images from text prompts. They can create:

How does AI art work?

Will AI art help or hurt artists?

What can AI art create?

Bull case: AI will lower the barrier to entry for artists to create digital art.

Bear case: AI will hurt artists’ livelihood and plagiarism will be rampant.

- Billions of images are scraped from the internet. These images, along with their text descriptions, are saved in a database. - The AI model uses this database to train through reverse diffusion. - Diffusion adds noise to an image (from the dog to random pixels). - Reverse diffusion turns noise back into an image.