AI can create stunning portraits. What does that mean for the art world?



Amazing artwork is being made using artificial intelligence and image rendering software, but it’s raising questions about creativity, copyrights and commerce. NBC News’ Jacob Ward shares his own story of unintentionally buying AI-generated art.

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35 comments

  1. He's full of Lies to call himself the author of automated recycled processing learning software.

  2. I want to KNOW whether something is AI or human.

    At this point i dont really care about AI.

    I want real human interaction.

    And no…using AI to call yourself an artists doesnt make you an artist.

  3. I think we should create marks that signify whether something is AI or human artwork.

    We should AT LEAST do that.

    Im an artist myself and life is too hard as it is.

  4. Ai: I scan and generate images for you.

    Me: I'm a artist

  5. None of this would exist without artists around the world and troughout history creating art for these programs to mix and match. Anyone using these results to make money are stealing peoples work.

  6. out with the old in with the new, AI is going to stay whether you like it or not, the future is coming for your jobs, enjoy the show lol

  7. A robot did not make it….. it’s using stolen images from artists that breaks copy right law. Big lawsuits are already in the process!

  8. As an artist and open slimeball, I sort of feel like that a lot of people, artists, programmers, and others, are sort of missing the main problem with AI generated art, and that is that it's basically like replacing human moderators with algorithms to monitor social media for crap like hate speech and dangerous misinformation, and you can ask Youtube how well it worked. These programs are impressive, but after a while, each piece blends into the other and creates artwork that ceases to make any sort of real impact, the same way COVID deniers, bigots, and other walking puke stains can outwit algorithms just by changing the text attached to their videos. Of course, it's cheaper than paying an artist or a moderator, so of course the corporate world is gonna love it even as it produces a worse and worse quality of product.

    End note: They're talking about doing the same with music. If you thought elevator music was dull and monotonous, you ain't seen nothin' yet until you've seen Google try their hand at heavy metal.

  9. You thought you were going to get a realistic painting from a "talented artist" for $79? These are the very "talented journalists" that are going to get replaced by ChatGPT.

  10. Well most of the celebrity toddlers were a fail.

  11. I guess you can call yourself writing descriptive artists if you must, lol Americans all claim everything ( I’m musician I’m this I’m that ) so what is the value in claiming anything anymore anyways

  12. In simple terms A.i art is the fast food of the art world it make look good but it will leave a bad taste in ur mouth

  13. It can also without human edits make horrendous monsters that puts you deep in the uncanny valley of horror with hands and facial proportions so outside of any human reality…

  14. 😂 ARTIST ARE NOW REPLACABLE! Why hire someone when I can have computer to make any type of art i want

  15. 2:102:13 acknowledging his own action by tooking 3rd point pov in his mind to judge his own past action.

    he wants his effort to type prompt to be considered as well by saying " i feel like i do owe some…. "

    notice the little shrugging with his shoulder = telling " See i do contribute as well! " ( to show a bit justification to avoid being catch as 100% exploitative work )

    at 2:14, notice how he cut the 3rd point pov to judge his own past action , and getting into "safe speech mode to appear innocent or just naive. "

    at 2:152:16 when he say " on the other hand " instead of saying on the other hand i took 95% of the artist work, he change it with "if u feel like it u like it " answer to induce middle area of answer

    to not offend anyone , meaning = hoping to be seen as a person who likes to stand in middle ground as if he's not into fights ( same as what midjourney ceo avoiding the question )

    . taking middle ground to solve 2 harsh polarized area is good.

    but he stand from corruption path and now stand in middle ground to make it as if he's just innocent. easily on list to get jailed.

  16. 1:57 face of being guilty. read the body language, constant nodding to hide the anxiety internally.

  17. 0:150:18 is a lie & misinformation / baiting. you CANNOT get what YOU exactly want with it. i've tried it for 1 month, and there's no joy in creating with it .

    with so many only copy pasting code here and there very small part of human thoughts behind it.

    the only way to really Make what YOU want is to be an artist. An Artist learn to Create . not just Picking a bunch of word and calling yourself an artist .

    it's the same as if you pay to have a warehouse full of a thousand dresses made, then spend weeks picking out the best one, Does that make you a fashion designer ??????????

    be honest to yourself.

  18. you've been involved into causing major anxiety, suicidal thoughts and ruining incredible people's lives, not making people better. You are working to rip people appart from their creativity. I want to see you in jail one day, and that's the least you deserve honestly

  19. Anything made using AI should be public domain. The art work is still impressive I don't care if it's not made by a person. But I wouldn't pay for it either.

  20. How did you find out the picture was painted by ai that’s my question

  21. it means nothing to the art world. art has soul. A.I. is soulless

  22. all aboard the doomtrain! Only law and legislation can save us now, to do what is best in the interest of human rights. The 'utopia' of AI and Technology with a capital T was posited on the basis that the menial tasks will be removed and we'd be left to busy ourselves with pleasurable pursuits like creativity. And thats one of the first things its robbing us of.

    Humans without art, creativity and god are worse than animals. At least animals are blissfully aware of the futility of their own existence.

    we had ONE THING guys. ONE THING. THANKS.

  23. AI will not replace artists. Not for the next 100 years. If anything, brilliant veteran artists will use AI to their advantage & move even further into the future.

  24. I guess the guy who thinks he’s an artist won’t like to understand that only brainstorming words into a program doesn’t make him an artist. It would hurt his pride to call himself an artist.

  25. This is just poor reporting. They completely skip past the part of training data, the most essential bit of this whole thing.

    I understand they don't want to get too technical for a broad audience, But just a graphic; images go in, AI does stuff, new images come out. Would have been enough. Instead of focussing on the output images, they should have shown some examples of an original artist's signature appearing in the newly generated images.

  26. Gonna be a lot of copyright lawsuits coming soon…

  27. I mean i rather buy art made by humans, that brings value into it unlike A.I's art

  28. When a progammer draws better than artist

  29. This could be helpful to comic artists, as well as manga producers who have to provide hundreds of drawn images.

  30. AI isn't the problem it's cool technology, the problem is how this AI company harvesting their data to train their machine (and put a paywall to their service). I mean come on, please be honest, we all just human tryna make a living, if you want to train your machine to adapt some certain art style, hire some illustrators, designers or artists. Nobody likes their stuff to be stolen.

  31. i like how they purposely dont tell people they use AI. almost as if they know that the value of an artpiece comes from the hardwork and effort it took to make it
    if ai art is real art then u should have no problem telling people an ai made it

  32. Ive seen plenty of Art Directors in my day commission talented artists to make stuff for them, only for the Art Director to turn around and take credit for it.

  33. AI art falls into the public domain.