Could the future of art lie in AI technology? - BBC News

Technology is shaking up the art world, with the rise of images being made by artificial intelligence (AI).

Computer systems are creating pieces of art from scratch with people simply needing to type in a few words.

But how exactly does the technology work?

This film is from Click – the BBC’s weekly technology show.

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[jeff]

Seems to me that the only reason someone would want to use ai for art is that it’s easier and cheaper. For me, art produced for mass consumption and commercial gain never has the same impact.

[_MaxHeadroom_]

Many people were thinking a career in creativity would be safe from being taken by tech but I'm not so sure that will continue to be true

[nateoverthehorizon]

Fuck that. I’m an artist and I’d be pissed to think a computer can just take my passion

[mikenixon]

It is sad that people have surrendered their God given talents to machines. Clicking keys is not the same as actually doing the work.

[kendomyers]

Ok...I need to test something

Computer. End program.

Nothing? Good, still the real world.

[richard]

I don't want to celebrate technology, I want to celebrate people's effort.

[LloydBrown-ovmh]

The future of art lie in AI? It is NOT art so how could that be? AI is not conscious. It takes consciousness to recognize art. And to make it. Marketing liars are all around us and make a living off the gullible, the lazy and insincere. Art is something very different from that. The future of art lies with artists - conscious ones.

[mindfulnessman]

Art is an emotional process, not an end result.
Art is one human’s communication of an internal state that transcends the use of words, to another human.
We are moved by art because the artist has led us to the place they intended to emote within us.
Art at its finest is a spiritual journey about the human experience.
Images can be made artificially but art cannot.

[scifiismyjam]

That's not from scratch... The "AI" relies heavily on internet based imagery and visual data that is heavily derived from pre existing material created by thousands of artists without their express permission.

It's image recombination software.

[nellieninepence]

it depends what a human heart considers to be "art"... for me it is the expression, of my way of seeing and exploring my inner spirit, my heart expressing itself ...

[ChristopherFynn]

These aren't paintings just 2d digital pictures.

Scribes must have been upset like this when the printing press was introduced.

[connorhanby]

It's wrong to say that the ai will do this from scratch because they are not they are using already existing images and putting them together to create something new

[alysonturcin-weller]

Perhaps we should stop relying on AI for everything

[Dnielle]

I want art I can touch. Paintings with textured brushstrokes, sculptures with tool marks, textiles with imperfections. Even if AI tricks me by creating something that looks real, my heart will sink the moment I discover its artificial origin.

[lfeb]

This is both interesting and terrifying as a creative person. I constantly have ideas for things that I want to create but don't have the skills, however I don't like the idea of losing the awe of others creativity and skill

[oli]

I have used stable diffusion before and i didn't know who Greg Rutkowski was, but almost everyone used his name while prompting. Later when I found out about him and read Rutkowski's response it felt morally wrong to use his artwork to create similar images without his consent. Problem is that LAION was trained for research purpose and is now being commercially used and this dataset which contains 5B images or more, has scraped pinterest and other places where a lot of artist have put forth their work for public display.
And now that all the models are being trained in this dataset, its replicating similar art work to these artists. Tools like textual inversion and dreambooth make it easy for any one to train models in a particular artists images and replicate art that is really close to the original. These artists live on their art work, express themselves through their artwork and honestly if I was in their shoes I would be upset too. It is morally wrong, people should understand their concerns and instead of helping these artist what I have seen in AI art community is toxicity and victim blaming, blaming artists for putting their work out in public and training models on the images of artists who are against AI art. I hope we can see some legal changes made against blatant replication of someone's art work. Also a clean dataset with no images taken without consent of people and artist would help solve copyright issue. Till then I can wait making cultured anime art for myself.

[GrumpDog]

In response to the claim at 5:40 She's dead wrong on that. The name being used in that case, is nothing more than a tag that references learned concepts.. The AI is not taking their original works and "copying" them, it no longer has any access to them, at that stage. And that's IF it even saw them to begin with, as part of training. There's a significant possibility that the AI does NOT need to see an artist's original works, to replicate them. It merely needs to see enough consenting lookalike or copycat artists that have also created works in those styles, or reproduced their own versions of the original artist's art, in order for the AI to recreate close enough approximations that can seem nearly perfect to us. And there's TONS more lookalike art, than original art out there to train on, for it to learn by proxy.

[axis]

Why are you talking about these AI’s like they’re not using every piece of visual data as reference? Including every piece of art available to view online? They’re not making it from scratch they’re building on top of humans creations. Which is completely fine and bloody amazing, this art is great don’t get me wrong! But they’re not just dreaming it up, they’re creating an approximation based on the word inputs and the visual data they have access to.

[scottsears]

Since it was Artist who brought us out of the Caves, I fear it will be AI that puts us back in.

[nesscamelo]

It's a great opportunity for copy-right law. As everything else it needs to be regulated. To me, it lacks of control, for now this is just a quick way to generate memes.