unusualsuspex

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There has been a huge wave of AI generated art in the last few months. I'll be the first to say it does incredible things and I've seen some amazing results people have shared. I've tinkered with it myself on an image or two and I've been on the whole impressed by what these AI packages have been able to produce. The question... is what an AI creates, art? Of course it is. Art can be achieved by all manner of methods and media and this software is creating images that explore all manner of subjects, forms and expressions. The more apt question... if someone is using an AI to create art. Should they claim it as their own? No. In my mind, the AI software is the artist, not the person who gave it the parameters to use as a guide. In a very real sense, AI software fills the role of a Virtual Commission. Just like a client commissioning a human artist, they tell us what they want. They give us parameters and descriptions of what they'd like us to create. We may do a few