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AI tools can create new images, but who is the real artist?

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By MATT O'BRIEN and ARIJETA LAJKA

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Now artificial intelligence systems are doing the same, training themselves on a vast collection of digitized artworks to produce new images you can conjure in seconds from a smartphone app.

It is a tipping point. Previous waves of automation targeted physical labor that could be replaced by mechanical force.

But intellectual labor being replaced by machines leaves infinitesimal room for reskilling, retraining. Human intellectual capacities are what set homo sapiens apart from nature.

Living in interesting times is interesting.

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Great example of wasting money.

Now understand a simple thing I am not anti AI my daughter got her master in AI works in AI.

But even she as artist on the side doesn't think AI for art is a useful thing or needed.

Simply put simpler to use a creative person.

AI as great potential for unmanned vehicles into space, under the ocean where sending humans is dangerous.

Using AI to help protect lives and do things people cannot is great.

But we have enough creative people in the 8 billion of this world we don't need a machine to create.

Anyway what is the big deal?

As a child I had this spinning gadget with a motor gears like attachments put paper in pick your colour paints, place the gears where you pleased turn on the motor drop paints in the areas and colours you want and voila a machine created abstract painting.

Waste of time and money, just pay a real artist let them earn a living wage and you'll enjoy the artwork much more than just from a machine.

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Yes, playing around with those AI tools like ChatGPT or DALL-e is really amazing and fun, showing the capabilities and also the limits or limitations that AI has in store for us. Who the real artist then is? The programming staff who has developed all this and made accessible for usage by everyone. And for a very small percentage it’s you and me , who give the description or commands to that AI which artwork to produce. But that’s insignificant, because the AI of course could produce all that by itself , billions of billions of random pictures, until one of yours is among them. The final user is therefore in principle not at all important when creating those phantasy digital AI artworks. To be fair I would say the ownership of such artwork should be only by the AI system owner in the very most standard cases.

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I have been really impressed by some of the work I have seen, but it still takes a bit of working to get really good results. It all depends on the person though, right. Im sure many artists still have a future, but how do concept artists compete with this AI?

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Anybody that says image generating AI are like modern collages fails completely to understand how they work. Making a lawsuit with this argument guarantees the claimants are going to lose.

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