Man Vs. The Machine — The Ethics of AI Art
What is art? Art means a lot of different things to people. If you ask an artist, you might get a description of the feelings that art evokes as they create a new piece. If you ask an art dealer, they might tell you something about the history of a piece and who owned it previously. If you ask a game designer, they’d probably tell you it’s assets that they can use and animate. But what is the value of art? CNN notes that AI-generated art has already won an art competition. Is this really art, or is it someone using software to generate an approximation of art? Is it even ethical to use AI art for anything?
Enter the Prompt Engineers
AI art is quite different from an artist’s typical process. Artists have unique ways they come up with the ideas they bring to life. It’s not easy being an artist. Not everyone has that skill to bring something fully formed from their mind onto canvas or a blank digital sheet. When you look at an artist building a piece, it seems like nothing you’ve ever seen before. It doesn’t even look like that finished product for a long time.
