The REAL Fight Over AI Art

Great video and fully agree! I think AI art programs as they develop will be like the invention of the camera.

Before the invention of the camera, painters were focused on creating highly realistic artworks of landscapes and portraits. The invention of the camera would have been quite scary for artists at first as it could create these highly detailed pictures in seconds rather than days/months, but it ended up improving art for those who used and did not use the new tool.

For painters, they shifted their focus as they no longer needed to try to be perfectly accurate in their pictures. This led to beautiful expressionist paintings such as those created by Van Gough.

For those who started using the camera, after basic pictures impressed audiences, they shifted to experimenting with the camera angles, shutter speed/aperture, contrast, colour, and the subject matter itself. Being a photographer in the past and even now is not just about clicking a button to take a photo.

AI art will be similar, it will rely on artists creativity to use and come up with the best prompts, then they may even put the generated AI images into photoshop and create further changes/additions to make it even better. Additionally, similar to the painters when the camera was invented, those who don’t use this new tool will still have a purpose, it will likely lead to some new creative directions that the AI is not able to replicate. 

I completely understand the anxiety associated with AI art for artists, but we should embrace the new reality as it is going to lead to some incredible creativity for those who do and do not use the new tool!