AI GENERATED ART AND ARTISTS

Roy, S. (2023). AI GENERATED ART AND ARTISTS. Ecofunomics, 6(1), 27–31. doi:10.5281/zenodo.13708217

Abstract

GenAI or Generative AI is a groundbreaking development in the world of artificial intelligence. It defies the traditional distinction between machine and human creativity. GenAI boasts applications across text, images, audio, video, animation, music, code, and beyond, promising limitless possibilities.

Text generation, exemplified by ChatGPT’s rapid adoption, represents one of the most advanced and widely used domains. However, GenAI isn’t without its challenges, including the phenomenon of “hallucinations” where it fabricates seemingly realistic but false information when data is lacking.

Image generation, though less professionally employed than text generation, is gaining traction in graphic design, advertising, and personal creativity. These models are trained on extensive datasets, allowing them to produce images based on textual prompts. Nevertheless, they have high error rates, particularly in rendering human anatomy.

The usage of AI-generated art is a complex and ethically intricate terrain, raising questions about inspiration, plagiarism, and ethical considerations. GenAI’s evolution poses a range of challenges, from ethical concerns to addressing its limitations, and it remains distinct from human creativity, serving as a creative tool with immense potential and ethical complexities.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Art, GenAI

JEL Classifications: O330, A120, 031

What is GenAI?

Machines are great at cognitive tasks like crunching numbers, finding patterns, and identifying anomalies almost at superhuman speeds. Humans are great at creative tasks like painting a picture, writing a song, and making a film. And until recently machines had no chance of beating humans at the latter. But now there is a new class of artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI (GenAI). And it’s ready to take on the challenge of beating humans in the creative realm as well. This class of AI can create things that are beautiful, believable, usually relevant, and always fast. And starting in 2022, it has become widely accessible globally thanks to the availability of cheaper computing.

Applications of GenAI?

Just as creativity has no limits, applications of GenAI are countless. They can be in the fields of text, image, audio, video, animation, music, code, video games and so much more. But the most commonly used form of GenAI is text generation with image generation coming at a close second (Huang & Grady, 2022).

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