A few weeks ago, there was a heated debate regarding the implications of AI in the process of art making. Jason M. Allen used one such generated piece of art to register into the digital art category of the Fine Arts competition, at Colorado State Fair, where he also won the first prize. This raised several complaints from other artists, some of them eventually accusing him of cheating, yet Jason M. Allen did not break any of the rules as the entry was registered with the title “Jason M. Allen via Midjourney”, and therefore he kept the prize.
In simple terms, the application works by entering some words in a textbox, describing what the artist would like to create, and then the AI that was trained on a dataset of other artist's works (both copyrighted and not) would produce a set of images.
The image that won the Fine Arts competition is the one presented above, and has been generated using Midjourney. Midjourney is one of the best tools available and at the moment any person can try it on their Discord server. Here is a link presenting some of the best work created by the community: https://www.midjourney.com/showcase/.
One of the biggest breakthroughs in A.I. generated art happened in 2015, when Alexander Mordvintsev (a Google engineer) created DeepDream, a program that uses neural networks to create an image similar with what one would see when ingesting LSD. The following image represents the LSD-like experience:
Other memorable mentions of such applications would be OpenAI’s DALL-E-2 and Stable Diffusion, which similarly can create realistic images and art from a description presented in natural language.
Regarding the moral implications of these great algorithms, do you think this represents the end of visual artists? We definitely think not, as it would rather be a super powerful tool that allows artists to express their creativity, and to brainstorm ideas that can then bloom into even more impressive pieces of art.
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