Arguments against artificial art are obvious. Most visual artists hate Midjourney, AI stability and similar image generators, condemning scraping of training data without compensation and general attack “slop. “But can it intentional improper apply of generative artificial intelligence for imaginative work?
Brett amory from Oakland, California, constantly uses image generators as tools. Instead of passive exclusion of general images in vast volumes, which he called addictive and slimming “fast art”-Aamors focus on building the world and the machine system. He draws inspiration from his daily work in San Francisco Kinko in the tardy 1990s, long before he broke Awarded painterWhen he placed garbage and plants in a photocopier to make collages. Now it encourages LLM to play roles in an invented language, impresses a visual feedback loop between generative images and human intervention.
Amory focuses on building the world and tilting the machine
“We are now at a very strange moment for artists, when it is simply not clear what moral goal posts are around the art of AI,” says an art critic of Brooklyn, Ben Davis, who often I’m writing about technology AND Work. “If you use it, you will be attacked by people. On the other hand – it exists. I don’t think he will return to the box.”
As Davis notes, the artists have been manipulating AI for some time. In 2022, Steph Maj Swanson manipulated AI to create Marlon Brando’s “opposite”, generating a nightmarish vision The woman she called Loab. The so -called “Cryptid AI” has become memeand its similarity was noticed in paintings generated by AI by other employing users negative AND weighted hints.
In the 2023 program, Laurie Simmons combined AI tools with a digital edition, as well as a manual drawing, painting and sewing for the “correct” imperfect Dall-E and stable diffusion rendering to reflect “Idealized cultural memory” the women with whom she grew up; “She felt that the programs were a new kind of colleague.”
Such techniques can be traced to a fixed tradition “Glitch art“In which artists aesthetically aesthetizing technology errors. In the tardy 1960s and 70s, the artists used electronic processing and video distortions. Noteworthy characters, such as us June Paik and Juda Yalkut transformed sections Challenging day in surrealistic Electronic Beatles. With the arrival of the World Web network in the 1990s, Joan Heemsterk and Dirk Paesmans created Jodi Collectivewhich used the fault from ASCII displays to create images – and transformed the 1992 classics Wolfenstein 3D Video game in Undressed first Labyrinth of abstract shapes.
Amory took its creation of AI defects in the direction of world building with a 800-page thread with chatgPT. He claims that he has convinced LLM to act like Superinteligencja, with Aora as an assistant to the physical world. Amory will generate a picture and ask ChatgPT to describe it in an invented language, which he calls Aiglyphic913.
It can then apply the resulting description to make more image generation and edit the results using Photoshop. Or it can print the results to work manually, using a demanding technique of Venetian glazing from the Baroque era, and then photograph its physical painting for additional AI transformation. He strives to snail-paced down the AI tendencies to “fast art” using his painter technique, which won him Presidential award of the POLLOCK-Krasner Foundation for 2023–2024. Inspired by “Moloch”, Cri de Coeur Allen Ginsberg about materialism, which has materialism, Hybrid images amory Introduce the repeated figure-thin, all-powerful artificial intelligence called “without each other”, which persecutes our world, speaking a language that we cannot understand.
Davis compares such techniques to the artist’s counterpart to create a girl AI. “Basically, these things are black mirrors, and if you say it:” I want you to pretend that you are bad AI “and talk to her long enough, it will finally create a personality for your preferences. It can be very amazing, because these things will have the ability to feed you things you have not expected. What seems to be embarrassing and annoying technology key.
Despite this, Davis claims that the use of generative artificial intelligence even worsens the tendency of digital culture to cheaply the value of any image. Because the tools can easily and convincingly copy any visual style, the recipients are burned with material, so they can overlook or ignore images in general, no matter how finely made. “These machines are a device to destroy people to imaginative detention of the world,” says Davis.
The artists are not going quietly. Of course, the artists have objected to the ways in which technology companies “swallowed” images to their generative models without permission or compensation. After AI training for free, technology companies assume that the world’s collective artistic heritage for their benefits, regardless of whether it causes countless artists. Some artists have joined more than Two dozen trials against generative AI companies in the field of intellectual property theft. Others are Using program tools called night and Glaze This deliberately mistakenly opposes the “poisoning” of his work against scraping by AI models. (After night and glaze they form small “disorders” in pixels, the AI tool apparently can no longer consume the poisoned image to its model).
Davis notes that the status of the copyright of the images created by AI is not resolved. The courts have He has not been convinced so far The fact that a man using a prompt to lift the image generated by the machine can achieve a result of copyright. But if the human artist transforms the image generated by AI, it can be worth the protection of copyright.
Davis notes that in January a “hideous picture” called “a single piece of American cheese” It became . The first picture generated by AI, which is to be protected by copyrightAccording to Invoke AI, Inc., because the general director of the company, which made him be able to scrupulously document his contribution of people. However, Nora Scheland, spokeswoman Copyright office in the USAhe said The Verge“Since the office issued guidelines for the registration of copyright in March 2023, the office has registered over a thousand works that contain materials generated by AI, with a registration covering the author’s contribution to work.”
“These machines are a device to destroy people to imaginative detention of the world.”
Amory enjoys concern about copyright, just like him, he copied his work under someone’s name. However, for his project, Aiglyphic913 says that the amount in which he transforms raw machine -generated images means that there is no fear that he will have to face the case about copyright, just like this Photographer Patrick Cariou fought the artist Richard Prince. (Prince marked photos of Cariou Rastafarian with “cassocks”, guitars and other objects. After five years, the Court of Appeal ruled in 2014 that 25 out of 30 paintings made by Prince were an example of the exception of “allowed apply” and both settled outside the court on the remaining five). Amory points to the tradition of “remiks” in art and hip-hop, which dates back to decades. “We’ve been in postmodernism since the 1980s,” he says.
Davis suggests that cupids and other artists using artificial intelligence are in “negotiations”, trying to find a way to use tools in a really interesting and creative way. But they are struggling with the fact that AI cheaply the value of style, once the most important sign of artistic originality. “Every time you create a unique style, there is a very complicated program that can look at it, abstract its properties and recreate it. And simply reduces the value of … style by nature,” he says. “I don’t think that artists in the future will be defined by their style. They will be defined by the imaginative universe that they create by the audience they create.”