WKAR Specials | Pixels and Perspectives: The Intersection of AI and Art
Appearance adjust the colors to reduce glare and give your eyes a break. Continue watching popular featured show - follow eight talented home cooks competing for a chance to win The Great American Recipe.
WKAR Specials | Pixels and Perspectives: The Intersection of AI and Art
Is AI art just another digital tool or danger to the art world? AI art generators can improve the efficiency and cost of some creative processes, but there are many concerns related to ethical use of AI. We speak to traditional as well as AI artists about their work, as well as experts looking into bias and policy for this rapidly expanding technology. Produced in collaboration with Nova.
Aired: 06/27/24
Rating: TV-G
Shall we play a game?
Can you spot the A.I. generated art? How did you do? A recent survey by Yale University found that on average, respondents could spot A.I. generated art 54% of the time. But with artificial intelligence becoming more advanced every day, A.I. art will become even harder to spot.
How can artificial intelligence create art?
A.I. is a really broad term that encompasses a suite of technologies that imitate any form of human intelligence. At the core of how A.I. systems learn is through data. It takes in a lot of data. Data, data, data. Basically, it is the use of giant data sets and algorithms in order to produce a particular output — an answer to a question.
The set of images that the algorithms learn from are hugely influential in the output from the algorithm and can reinforce harmful biases and stereotypes.
Ethical Concerns of AI Art
All these algorithms have been trained on a lot of data scraped off the Internet. In some sense, their work has been used to train these algorithms. There's a lot of debate about the ethics of pulling all of these different things and then generating something new from them.
Future of AI Art
I don't think there is a future for AI Art. I think it's going to be futures. I think there'll be a future for commercial applications which run wild with it, and the artistic community will find ways to approach it creatively and critically and to explore the range of social address that's already been explored with art and perhaps to extend it even further.
All of us will see some amount of AI augmenting what we do, and I think that's the reality and it's maybe part of a larger trend that technology has steadily infused our lives. In the future, I see AI being maybe something less scary because we'll know more about it and I can see a lot more stipulations and regulations being implemented so that people aren't feeling like they're getting their work stolen from them.
