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Art is a popular outlet for self-expression. Through mediums like paint and pencils, one can create a variety of perspectives and colors can invoke different emotions in the viewer. These creations turn into meaningful pieces that highlight themes artists are passionate about. All these factors hold authenticity and value which ultimately contribute to the overall reason as to why one might create art. However, when art blends with technology, conversations have risen as to whether it is ethical to give artificial art any credibility. Artificial intelligence has grown in popularity among many fields due to its efficiency, and such has made people believe that AI is a substantial resource to refer to when in a plight. In return, this has caused great dependency on technology, which is reducing individual effort by people.
Regarding AI art, illustrations and drawings created through prompts with technologies such as ChatGPT are surprisingly sold at high prices. In fact, such artificial art is gaining more attraction than original art due to its detail and awe factor. Recently, a world-leading art and luxury business based in London by the name Christie’s, held an ‘Augmented Intelligence’ auction. Multiple art pieces created with AI technology were placed for auction and brought in around $700,000. Many people argue that AI takes away credibility from human artists by exploiting their work without permission to build commercial AI products that compete with them. Multiple artificial intelligence models improve their skills by feeding on other artists’ copyrighted work which has resulted in many lawsuits against the technology companies creating the software.
Bellevue High School houses many talented artists who use art as a primary source to express themselves. However, when AI models start replacing the effort and time taken in creating art, it also replaces the sentiment of the craft created.
“I don’t think there is authenticity in artwork made by artificial intelligence; such art should not qualify as art because it takes away from our own sweat and tears,” junior Ishaan Poranki said.
Many institutions such as Christie’s use AI art to make a profit and this reduces the worth of art in general. Since almost everyone can access models that specialize in creating images based on prompts, art will begin to seem like an activity almost anyone can do with minimal to no effort.
Overall, artificial intelligence can never really ‘replace’ the work created by humans. Although their creations might seem unique at first glance, it doesn’t hold the sentiment and passion that gives art its true value.
