Isabelle Levent

In many instances, to say that some technologies are inherently political is to say that certain widely accepted reasons of practical necessity–especially the need to maintain critical technological systems as smoothly working entities–have tended to eclipse other sorts of moral and political reasoning.

As more artists gain access to AI and take up the tools, artists will have a whole new look — both how they look making art and how their art develops.

Indeed, AI is a diffuse term that corresponds to a web of human actors and computational processes interacting in complex ways

Because creativity  by definition  involves not only novelty but value, and because values are highly variable, it follows that many arguments about creativity are rooted in disagreements about value. 

"The data we licensed from Shutterstock was critical to the training of DALL-E,” said Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO. “We’re excited for Shutterstock to offer DALL-E images to its customers as one of the first deployments through our API, and we look forward to future collaborations as artificial intelligence becomes an integral part of artists’

“Our business has never been about the ease of creating imagery or the resulting volume. It is about connecting and cutting through.”

It becomes a question of who created a certain work of art.