Algorithms Can Now Mimic Any Artist. Some Artists Hate It
WiredSwedish artist Simon Stålenhag is known for haunting paintings that blend natural landscapes with the eerie futurism of giant robots, mysterious industrial machines, and alien creatures. The act of AI imitation was performed by Andres Guadamuz, a reader in intellectual property law at the University of Sussex in the UK who has been studying legal issues around AI-generated art. Guadamuz says he created the images to highlight the legal and ethical questions that algorithms that generate art may raise. Guadamuz says he chose Stålenhag for his experiment because the artist has criticized AI-generated art in the past and might be expected to object. In a series of tweets this week, he said that while borrowing from other artists is a “cornerstone of a living, artistic culture,” he dislikes AI art because “it reveals that that kind of derivative, generated goo is what our new tech lords are hoping to feed us in their vision of the future.” Guadamuz publicly apologized to Stålenhag and says he deleted tweets that included the derivative images.
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