Will AI Art Help or Hurt Artists?
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Will AI Art Help or Hurt Artists?
The companies promoting generative-A.I. programs claim that they will unleash creativity. In essence, they are saying that art can be all inspiration and no perspiration—but these things cannot be easily separated. I’m not saying that art has to involve tedium. What I’m saying is that art requires making choices at every scale; the countless small-... See more
As calculators shifted math from rote computation to conceptual exploration, AI nudges creativity towards the uniquely human - the emotional, the ethical, the culturally resonant. It’s not a duel at dawn with paintbrushes or pianos but a partnership, with AI as the trusty sidekick, expanding the canvas of human expression.
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That's an entirely plausible path by which people might use AI to excel in the visual arts, but there is an alternative scenario where the AI ends up being more like an iPad that you just use it to keep busy.
Tyler Cowen • Tyler Cowen on AI and China
Meanwhile, even as generative AI has rapidly affected Kim Van Deun’s livelihood, she says she has never once regretted pursuing art as a career. This is what art does to us. Whether we make it or become its patron, it gives us a way to envision a different kind of world, a new way of expression. It gives us hope.
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