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Rachel T's avatar

Sarah, I was moved by this post. Your comments were very on point. I find AI to be very scary in how it could alter reality with what people want to portray, often in the political world. i didn’t even think about how it would affect artists and writers whose work will be plagiarized. From the previous posts, I’m glad to see that AI is being used in positive ways.

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amy's avatar

Thanks for this post! I recently met Fatimah Tuggar, who’s using AI to try to imagine what lost African art & cultures may have been given the remaining neighboring cultures and few artifacts we do have. Her work is fascinating. While I also worry, seeing her work gives me hope.

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Thibault's avatar

that's a very cool use of it! Thank you for sharing. It's definitely not clear cut

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Ranu's avatar

So many threads in this situation....

- I wonder if there is a parallel of what is evolving in film with the SAG negotiations for writers and actors.

- I wonder what all this means for art history.

- The AI can only train on the digital image or representation of an artwork that exists in another physicality- so it is only training on a shell of how they really operate

-I wonder what does this mean for artists who are using it on the other end

The Serpentine Creative AI Lab is a great resource for thinking and work on how artists might be involved in developing AI differently, or using machine learning in more profound ways.

https://creative-ai.org/research

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Thibault's avatar

thank you for this. It does feel like a lot and there isn't just one answer that settles how I feel about it. I will check out the link. Thank you!

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