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Wallace
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Length: 180mm Weight: 42.3g
Mr. Godkin and the students of s2
23 rd february, 2023 is a lack of skill behind generating AI images, but that doesn’t disqualify it from being a unique art form. I use digital drawing programs as tools for creating art; others use AI programs as tools for generating images. The key difference is that AI-generation is a non-human action executed by artificial skills. Nevertheless, people proclaim AI art as their own by monetizing them as such.
In 2022, John Allen submitted a piece of AI artwork to the Colorado State Fair fine arts competition and won $300. Three months later, Ammaar Reshi AI-generated a marketable children’s book, Alice and Sparkle. In my opinion as an artist, the skill of executing a practiced artistry differs from the skill of typing prompts into a program, and they should therefore be awarded and appraised differently.
The rise in AI almost discouraged me from pursuing an art career. However, my passion remains unscathed with the reassurance that AI isn’t fully trained to recognize and refine visual details. Look at the royal clothing in 17th-century paintings or the humans in 19th-century realism and you’ll find intricate details perfected by artists who can render out visual errors. AI programs have difficulty generating the correct proportions, details, and coloration, especially with humanoid features. It takes real human perception to recognize imperfections and real human skills to perfect them. AI cannot fully accomplish what human intuition can. It’s when AI mimics human skills to the microscopic details that another conversation on technology arises. •
Roose, Kevin. “An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy.” International New York Times, 6 September, 2022.
Popli, Nik. “He Used AI to Publish a Children’s Book in a Weekend. Artists Are Not Happy About It” Time, 14 December, 2022.
“Digital Creativity: a Practical Guide” University of York. Accessed 2 February, 2023. Dr. Robert Glass. “What is art history and where is it going?” Smarthistory, 28 October, 2017.
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Length: 115mm Weight: 32.7g
Mr. Godkin and the students of s2
23 rd february, 2023
