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ART AI

ART AI

These images were shot in a photography studio, and then uploaded to an AI art creator - Night Cafe Studio - to be processed into digital art.

Images can be simply uploaded online, a few prompt words are typed in, a style is chosen and AI art is created. Will this new innovation take over, and become the next big thing, allowing creators everywhere to create their own art stunningly quickly?

Will this benifit the world today or will this create a negative impact on artists and people everywhere?

In this article, Carbon explores the consequences of AI Art, and the effect this will have on creatives and people.

“I think the world of AI is scary, this can bleed into video, I think this is impressive, but I think it is just going to make us lazy - it is going to create disconnection between the real world and digital world. At least when posting content there is a person who has created that post or video, but AI would replace this, making people less likely to put the effort in to make content because they can just create it digitally, or with AI. Also, AI will replace jobs.”

- ANONYMOUS

This is one opinion on AI, but many people feel this way - that AI will replace the quality content created by real people, making content creators lazier, and disconnecting the real world from the digital, AI world. This will also create a struggle for content creators, as they work to create high quality content that stands on the same level as AI content.

AI Art is inarguably eye-catching, but AI may cause friction as content creators fight to battle with the creation of AI content overtaking their own content.

There are also many problems that can occur when using AI - often, AI generators online use images from the internet, so there can be copyright issues with AI creating images from pictures that belong to other people. When people use an AI generator to create art, they usually pass off these artworks as their own, with the help of AI, however if this image has been created using a pre-existing picture, this is a copyright issue.

Many of the works in this magazine have been created using AI generators, such as Nightcafe Studio, Dreamlike.art, and Dall-E.

The return of surrealism has influenced an increased interest in AI, designers and creators will reject logic, with AI-created surreal designs that capture something never seen before.

Both professionals and amateurs will both be able to create high quality visuals using AI, in 2022, IBM found that 35% of companies already use AI technology, and this will continue to grow as more companies start to do the same. Already, 42% of companies are using AI solutions in business.

“AI Art is amazing! Having the ability to create art so quickly is a gift, but it should be used wisely, because it may take over artists who use traditional styles such as painting, or drawing, AI could overtake this!”

- ANONYMOUS

Both of these images have been created using an AI generator, DALL-E, using the prompt words “Cyberpunk, futuristic cityscape” which shows how easy it is to create an AI image, and pass this off as art, so the one thing to remember when creating AI art - always admit this is AI, and is not an original creation, for copyright laws.

Ai Art Origins

Ever since 1973, Harold Cohen - a painter and professor at University of California, San Diego - collaborated with a program called AARON to create pictures autonomously. Cohen joked that he would be the first ever artist to still have the ability to create works of art, even after his own death. The AARON program would continue to create AI artwork, by the program and Harold Cohen! To the right is one of Cohen and AARON’s works: Are the artworks really his, or are they the program’s?

Astonishingly, in 2018, an auction sold a piece of art created by AI, named “Portrait of Edmond Belamy” for $432,500! The piece was created by Obvious using 15,000 portraits from various eras.

AI is not only for artists, but musicians aswell, in 2017, Taryn Southern created music generated alongside AI in a debut album I AM AI.

To find out more about the stances on AI art, we asked a traditional artist their opinion, here’s what they said:

“I think AI art is really good, because you can literally put words or photos into the generator and make different variations, which is really good to get inspiration for other art you want to do, because sometimes you just get a bit stuck.

Although, you could argue that it’s so easy to make that art might become redundant, but at the same time, AI art could make real art redundant anyway.

But I think people appreciate the amount of work that is put into the art, rather than the actual piece or image itself. AI art can create some really cool images, but there is little to no work put in, it is computer generated, whereas with ‘real’ art, the artists has put in so much time and effort! But it is still so cool!”