Development of AI image generators accelerated a lot in recent years, currently, we can choose from various options like DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. The level of advancement is incredible, you can create whatever you can imagine moreover these programs potentially can create something which no man could imagine, and here we come to the subject of the article.
On August 25 Jason M. Allen won the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition there would be nothing strange about it if it weren’t for the fact that his work has been created by Artificial intelligence. Other participants accused Allen of cheating, arguing that he break the rules, but Allen justified what he had done. A.I. was used to construct his work, which was submitted under the name “Jason M. Allen via Midjourney,” he said, and he denied misleading anybody about its creation.“I won’t apologize for it, he declared, I won and followed all the regulations” but my goal is not to prove the author’s guilt or innocence I would like to focus on what can be considered art these days.
Most of the objections to the author focused on the statement that a computer-generated image cannot be considered art because it was not created by a human being. Similar opinions could be heard at the time when cameras and taking pictures with them became widespread. Many painters recoiled at the invention of the camera, which they saw as a debasement of human artistry. (Charles Baudelaire, the 19th-century French poet and art critic, called photography “art’s most mortal enemy.”) In the 20th century, digital editing tools and computer-assisted design programs were similarly dismissed by purists for requiring too little skill of their human collaborators. Some artists defended Mr. Allen by arguing that using artificial intelligence (A.I.) to create a piece was identical to using Photoshop or other digital image-manipulation tools and that human creativity was still needed to come up with the appropriate prompts to produce the art.
In my opinion, a lot of people who criticize images generated by AI think that the image generates itself without human help, from a certain point of view this is right, but I would treat such programs as a tool in the hands of the artist just as the chisel is a necessary tool for the sculptor. AI artists are simply the result of technological and cultural developments around the world. But I also see a potential problem with the development of this technology, already artificial intelligence can affect the dissemination of information in the form of deep fakes, which are already indistinguishable to the untrained eye, the same danger exists in the case of images that will be created by artificial intelligence, for example, falsification of photographs forgery of works of art or intellectual works.
In conclusion, I believe that machine-generated images as much as possible can be considered art, it is simply a new, emerging branch of art.
Finally, I would like to show you what can be created with this program in five minutes. below is the text I used to get this image.
“Great Cathedral in which people are located. It is bright, the cathedral is built in a modern style”
Sources:
Midjourney discord
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/technology/ai-artificial-intelligence-artists.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_art
https://beincrypto.com/ai-art-wins-art-competition-invokes-metaverse-social-media-melts-down/
I disagree with you, in my opinion, art should be the author’s expression of emotions and vision, which can’t be shown with help of a computer program.