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You Didn’t “Make” Art With AI, You Commissioned It
Recently, some dude won an art competition by submitting a picture that was created with AI software. He was open about the fact that he used AI software, so this wasn’t an attempt to trick anyone. Though, at the same time, it seems that the people judging the contest were unclear about the potential for this to happen, and may have decided differently if they were more informed.
This is one instance in a big debate that we’re all going to be hearing about a lot, because the impact of AI that can generate art is going to be a bigger shift than when photography came on the scene. When people thought photography was going to replace paints and pencils, that was just a matter of the ease of creating pictures. Now, if robots can make art, that’s got implications for what it means to be human.
However, like many things, this is both a huge change and not a change.
Take the guy who won the art contest. He is, apparently, trying to make the case that he did, in fact, “make” the art he submitted. He just used a particular software to do it, and how is that different from someone using Photoshop or whatever?
It’s very different.
I’ve been playing around with Midjourney recently. That’s the same software the guy in the art contest used. It’s pretty wild. You can…