Topic: Are pictures produced using generative AI properly described as Art?
Are pictures produced using generative AI properly described as Art?
There is a discussion in a well-known forum that includes asking about whether pictures produced using generative AI are properly described as Art.
I have produced pictures using generative AI. In fact, using the Bing Chat AI web-based facility, that facility now named Copilot.
To do that I have used a text prompt. Some text prompts are fairly short, some are longer.
I like to think of myself as an artist, yes, a hobbyist artist.
However, that thinking of myself as an artist is not based on having authored text prompts to an AI program.
Though I have sometimes used my knowledge of art, (as an artist?) in the authoring of a prompt to the AI system, such as by mentioning concepts such as golden ratio and rabatment.
As a side issue, I only learned of rabatment fairly recently, that from learning about it from John Kay's book that John kindly linked to in a post in another thread in this forum.
https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=5555#p5555
Consider please the following image, and the prompt that was input to the AI system that resulted in the generation of that picture, and other pictures.
https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=3876#p3876
I chose that one. I have now got a framed print of the picture - I ordered a square, full-field, what is called a photo greetings card, from Papier.com, though using the image output from the AI system rather than a photograph. That had the effect of enlarging the image to fit and using a little from the edges as bleed areas, so losing those little edge parts. I also have a giclée print on a white background at exact size of 1024 pixels by 1024 pixels at 300 dots per inch on a 7 inch by 5 inch piece of archive quality paper and I opine that it looks really good, though I do not purport to be a "recognized" art critic.
So is it art?
Please discuss. Examples and links to examples are welcome in this discussion.
William