Op-Ed: Beware a world where artists are replaced by robots. It’s starting now
2 years ago

Op-Ed: Beware a world where artists are replaced by robots. It’s starting now

LA Times  

Like many artists, I’ve looked in horror at generative image AI, a technology that is poised to eliminate humans from the field of illustration. The most popular generative art AI companies, Stability AI, Lensa AI, Midjourney and DALL-E, all trained their AI’s on massive data sets such as LAION-5B, which is run by the German nonprofit LAION. Type in a text prompt, like “Spongebob Squarepants drawn by Shepard Fairey,” and the AI mashes together art painstakingly created over lifetimes, then spits out an image, sometimes even mimicking an artist’s signature. People sometimes say “AI art looks like an artist made it.” This is because it vampirized the work of artists and could not function without it. Famed animator Hayao Miyazaki called it an “insult to life itself.” AI pushers have told me that AI is a tool which artists can use to automate their work.

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New AI entertainment studio gets backing from Peter Chernin, Andreessen Horowitz
1 month ago

New AI entertainment studio gets backing from Peter Chernin, Andreessen Horowitz

Live Mint  

Veteran media executive Peter Chernin and tech investor Andreessen Horowitz are backing a new studio that will primarily use generative artificial intelligence to make shows and movies, embracing a new technology that traditional Hollywood players are venturing into cautiously. Unlike traditional studios that are starting to experiment with generative AI for storyboarding or some visual effects, Promise is creating an …

The Supercycle of AI: How Startups Can Tap into the Next Big Thing
1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Supercycle of AI: How Startups Can Tap into the Next Big Thing

Live Mint  

Venture capitalist Martin Casado discusses the potential of AI for investors. He highlights three use cases that are working well now: creative composition, companionship, and code. Casado also discusses the challenges of AI, including the need for data, computing power, and data centers. He emphasizes that the next epoch of AI growth will be driven by exponential scales, requiring 10 …

A Portrait of AI: The First Robot Painting to Go to Auction
2 months ago

A Portrait of AI: The First Robot Painting to Go to Auction

CNN  

Sotheby's will sell its first work credited to a humanoid robot using artificial intelligence (AI) later this month. The painting, titled 'A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024)', depicts Alan Turing, the English mathematician and Second World War cryptanalyst who is remembered as a pioneer in AI and computer science. The painting is estimated to sell for between $120,000 and …

British stars join generative AI protest against ‘unlicensed use’ of works
2 months ago

British stars join generative AI protest against ‘unlicensed use’ of works

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scottish author Sir Ian Rankin, The Cure’s Robert Smith and Radiohead singer Thom …

10 reasons why AI may be overrated
4 months, 2 weeks ago

10 reasons why AI may be overrated

NPR  

10 reasons why AI may be overrated toggle caption Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images Is artificial intelligence overrated? Reason 3: Because AI isn't very intelligent and hallucinations make it unreliable, it's proving incapable of doing most — if not all — human jobs. Researchers at Goldman Sachs found that "the proliferation of generative AI technology — and the data centers …

AI image-generator startup Stability AI looks for reshoot with new CEO and investor group
5 months, 4 weeks ago

AI image-generator startup Stability AI looks for reshoot with new CEO and investor group

Associated Press  

LONDON — The troubled artificial intelligence company behind image-generator Stable Diffusion is looking for a reshoot with a new CEO and a surge of investment from a group that includes Sean Parker, Facebook’s former president and Napster’s co-founder. The arrival of Stable Diffusion and its instantly created AI artwork and photorealistic images helped spark the public’s fascination with generative AI. …

Art meets invasion: Inside the face-off with AI
6 months ago

Art meets invasion: Inside the face-off with AI

Hindustan Times  

Work on it began a bit before that point, in the 1980s, when a prolific musician named David Cope was tasked with creating the music for an opera. In it, the artists urge AI developers, technology companies, platforms and digital music services to refrain from employing AI in ways that undermine and diminish the rights of human creators. Earlier this …

Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced
54 years, 11 months ago

Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced

Wired  

When users first found out about Adobe’s new terms of service, there was an uproar. Adobe told users it could access their content “through both automated and manual methods” and use “techniques such as machine learning in order to improve Services and Software.” Many understood the update as the company forcing users to grant unlimited access to their work, for …

Opinion: As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it?
6 months ago

Opinion: As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it?

LA Times  

OpenAI announced Media Manager, a tool to be released next year that purportedly will help writers and other creators control how their work is used. Amid the hype surrounding Apple’s new deal with OpenAI, one issue has been largely papered over: The AI company’s foundational models are, and have always been, built atop the theft of creative professionals’ work. But …

An AI-powered Dubai holiday with robots and tech art
6 months, 2 weeks ago

An AI-powered Dubai holiday with robots and tech art

The Hindu  

Known for its towering ambition — reflected in glitzy high rises and gilt-edged luxury — Dubai has been setting its AI wheels in motion way before the term ‘artificial intelligence’ entered everyday conversations. In October 2017, the UAE established the world’s first Artificial Intelligence Ministry, pushing its AI agenda from the governmental policies to the daily lives of Dubai’s residents …

’AI not understanding the art form it replicates, a key concern for regulators’
8 months, 3 weeks ago

’AI not understanding the art form it replicates, a key concern for regulators’

Live Mint  

As artificial intelligence gains prominence across various businesses, its rapid expansion has sparked concerns among artists about the potential for the technology to encroach upon their creative works. He added that it would come down eventually because GenAI was a “solution looking for a problem.” Harshjit Sethi, managing director of venture capital firm Peak XV, emphasized the necessity of integrating …

Will artists lead the revolution against AI?
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Will artists lead the revolution against AI?

Live Mint  

I doubt there is any form of love comparable to what an artist has for her art. On to Mint’s best journalism from this week: Executives of India’s largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services huddled up in Abu Dhabi last week to discuss the company’s future. Mint’s startup and new economy editor Ranjani Raghavan along with Sneha Shah take a …

AI-powered digital colleagues are here. Some 'safe' jobs could be vulnerable.
1 year ago

AI-powered digital colleagues are here. Some 'safe' jobs could be vulnerable.

BBC  

AI-powered digital colleagues are here. Alamy Office jobs, once considered largely shielded from AI, are threatened – and faster than many people imagined they might be Humans already work alongside robots in industries such as manufacturing. Yet the light-speed adoption and evolution of generative AI tools may now mean knowledge-work jobs that were long considered "safe" could be threatened even …

The Art of a Good Unicorn | Startup founders, here's how Gen AI could reshape your business
1 year ago

The Art of a Good Unicorn | Startup founders, here's how Gen AI could reshape your business

Hindustan Times  

Late 2022 seemed to be a watershed moment in the advent of AI and generative AI. There also had been a lingering worry that AI would come for the menial or manual jobs, but it seems like it may redefine creative sectors as well. Samuel says, “If you want to build a global marketplace where enterprises can click to hire …

New tools help artists fight AI by directly disrupting the systems
1 year, 1 month ago

New tools help artists fight AI by directly disrupting the systems

NPR  

New tools help artists fight AI by directly disrupting the systems Enlarge this image toggle caption Kurt Paulsen/Kudurru Kurt Paulsen/Kudurru Artists have been fighting back on a number of fronts against artificial intelligence companies that they say steal their works to train AI models — including launching class-action lawsuits and speaking out at government hearings. toggle caption Glaze and Nightshade …

Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work
1 year, 3 months ago

Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Kelly McKernan’s acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The Nashville-based McKernan, 37, who creates both fine art and digital illustrations, soon learned that companies were feeding artwork into AI systems used to “train” image-generators — something that once sounded like a weird sci-fi …

Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work
1 year, 3 months ago

Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Nashville-based McKernan, 37, who …

Artists fight AI programs that copy their styles
1 year, 8 months ago

Artists fight AI programs that copy their styles

The Hindu  

Artists outraged by artificial intelligence that copies in seconds the styles they have sacrificed years to develop are waging battle online and in court. It would be wrong for artists to "get a couple of cents while the company gets millions" of dollars, added Ortiz, whose resume includes working for Marvel Studios. Stability AI founder and chief executive Emad Mostaque …

AI news latest: ChatGPT is showing signs of thinking like humans; Bill Gates hails “age of AI”
1 year, 9 months ago

AI news latest: ChatGPT is showing signs of thinking like humans; Bill Gates hails “age of AI”

The Independent  

✕ Close What is new with the fourth version of ChatGPT? Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They are the latest developments in …

AI tools can create new images, but who is the real artist?
1 year, 11 months ago

AI tools can create new images, but who is the real artist?

Firstpost  

Now artificial intelligence systems are doing the same, training themselves on a vast collection of digitized artworks to produce new images you can conjure in seconds from a smartphone app Countless artists have taken inspiration from “The Starry Night” since Vincent Van Gogh painted the swirling scene in 1889. Another lawsuit in a U.S. federal court in San Francisco describes …

Where the AI Art Boom Came From—and Where It’s Going
1 year, 11 months ago

Where the AI Art Boom Came From—and Where It’s Going

Wired  

It used to be widely thought that creative work would be one of the last things to be automated. In the space of a few months last year, several powerful tools for creating art with AI just by typing in a few words became widely available. Some commercial artists are experimenting with the technology—although not all like it—and stock photo …

Digital Art | Why has art created by AI become controversial?
2 years, 2 months ago

Digital Art | Why has art created by AI become controversial?

The Hindu  

The story so far: On October 3, acclaimed comic artist, Kim Jung Gi, died after experiencing chest pain while traveling to the New York Comic Con. In other words, even a person with no art experience can enter a prompt such as “a parent and one child standing on the beach and watching the pink sunset together” to produce an …

AI won an art contest, and artists are furious
2 years, 3 months ago

AI won an art contest, and artists are furious

CNN  

CNN Business — Jason M. Allen was almost too nervous to enter his first art competition. In August, Allen, a game designer who lives in Pueblo West, Colorado, won first place in the emerging artist division’s “digital arts/digitally-manipulated photography” category at the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Competition. His winning image, titled “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial”, was made with Midjourney — …

Is AI the future of art?
2 years, 6 months ago

Is AI the future of art?

Live Mint  

To many this is art's next big thing: digital images of jellyfish pulsing and blurring in a dark pink sea, or dozens of butterflies fusing together into a single organism. The Argentine artist Sofia Crespo, who created the works with the help of artificial intelligence, is part of the "generative art" movement, where humans create rules for computers which then …

When it comes to tech-art, who is the real creator?
2 years, 7 months ago

When it comes to tech-art, who is the real creator?

Live Mint  

Ai-Da, named after the English mathematician Ada Lovelace, is like any other artist. Pakistan-based artist Muzzumil Ruheel, who is presenting an AR-powered sculptural project, Meeting Point, at the India Art Fair, says that while tools like AR help, technology—AR, virtual reality, AI—is just a medium. Eventually, it will make more space for people to think.” The art world has shown …

Songs like Nirvana’s, novels like Kerouac’s: How AI is getting artistic
3 years, 8 months ago

Songs like Nirvana’s, novels like Kerouac’s: How AI is getting artistic

Hindustan Times  

Kurt Cobain would probably have enjoyed it. The Nirvana frontman who died at the height of his fame in 1994, would probably have listened to an artificial intelligence program’s attempt to generate a new song based on his music. Meanwhile at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Paris, an AI music composer called Flow Machines reworked classic arrangements and even remixed Beethoven’s …

Machine Surpasses Master? An AI Robot Has Been Taught to Make Banksy-inspired Artwork
4 years, 1 month ago

Machine Surpasses Master? An AI Robot Has Been Taught to Make Banksy-inspired Artwork

News 18  

Has the machine surpassed its master? While the works leave no doubt as to the identity of the artist they take inspiration from, the creator of the software, Matt Round, refrains from explicitly mentioning Banksy’s name, to avoid any legal complications. The AI software was trained using a bank of hundreds of images of street art, some of which were …

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