🤔 AI can't create Art

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” ― Vincent Van Gogh

In today’s newsletter:

• AI can’t make art

• Japanese Songwriter loses to AI

• How to make AI art

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According to Webster’s art is the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects” or “ skill acquired by experience, study, or observation”.

AI isn’t conscious and it didn’t acquire a skill. A computer program uses math to calculate differences in the image and mimics it. So, it can not create art. Any more than copying an advanced mathematical algorithm on a piece of paper would make me a mathematician.

That hasn’t stopped top auction houses from selling AI art ( Christie’s in 2018 for $400k, Sotherby’s in 2024 for $1M ). With the ruling that AI training on copyrighted materials isn’t illegal if the work is transformative, it made me wonder how this will work with art.

New forms of art have a more distinctive style. It requires full mimicking to get that same feeling in the image. As a result of AI, companies are no longer hiring as many artist but instead scrape their work and use it. ( Read more here.) How trans formative does the new AI generated image need to be to not be copyright infringement.

This seems like less of an issue with photography. Google ‘s Nano Banata image editing tool makes photo realistic Polaroids. Wedding photographers better watch out. (More here.)

But games are being hit heavy. Cheap AI made versions of hit games like Peak are flooding the market (more here.) The games share the same visuals and mechanics. So lawsuits are flying all over the world and we’ll just have to wait and see what the courts rule.

How would you use AI to generate art?

Interesting

Over in Japan, the girl group, AKB48, is releasing an AI generated single. After a contest was help between a song written by Yasushi Akimoto and an computer algorithm trained to mimic his songwriting patterns. The fans chose the computer in a devastating blow to a composers whose songs have sold over 100 Million copies. I hope he’s doing ok. (Read More here)

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