This machine art clears prizes

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Artificial Intelligence (AI). You can no longer avoid this issue. All of a sudden everyone started talking about chatbots like ChatGPT. About image programs like Midjourney. But first of all about their products: lyrics, photos. Art!

It all started with the «Théâtre d’opéra spatial», the first time an artificial intelligence painting has won an art prize. Something similar happened in photography recently: Boris Eldagsen was chosen as the winner for his artificial intelligence study “Pseudomnesia: The Electrician.” And just over a week ago, the AI ​​song “Heart on My Sleeve”, a deceptively true duet of US superstars Drake and The Weeknd, went viral.

When it turned out that the computer was behind him, everyone’s reaction was similar: admiration combined with fear. And desperation: what’s going on right now? One thing is for sure: AI is revolutionizing the art world. And at supersonic speeds.

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Dragica Kahlina was not surprised at this speed. For co-director of Masters Music and Digital Creation at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, there was one tipping point: access to AI tools for the general public. Anyone can download programs with a few clicks. This adds a lot now, he says: “Society will have to renegotiate: What is art?”

Many artists’ stances are clear: US musical great Nick Cave called the AI ​​lyrics that fans sent him “a grotesque mockery of what it means to be human.” And Herbert Grönemeyer recently added to the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”: “Art (…) always arises from a bit of insecurity, often out of despair. No computer can do that. It may still try to absorb something special from our souls, but it can’t.”

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This sounds like disappointment. Professor Kahlina explains it this way: Up until now it has always been clear: Art is what man creates with an intention behind it. Art is what is deep, clumsy, reflecting society. “But now, with AI, we see that people just want to hang a nice picture in their living room,” he says.

Finally, Kahlina points to a concrete problem: “AI will deprive many artists of their livelihoods.” Today they keep their heads above water not with their art, but with the so-called practical art: illustrations, logo design, web design. Emin: “All these things will go away.”

These three works have been talked about a lot lately:

The “Théâtre d’opéra spatial” wrote art history: the first ever award-winning image created by an artificial intelligence. With the Colorado State Art Award. Creator: Online board game developer Jason Allen. Before that, he had nothing to do with art. When it was revealed that he had created this with an AI imagery program, it was up to Europe by a storm. The critics said something like this: You are not an artist. Allen countered in interviews: “AI is as much a tool as a brush.”

The fake photo of Boris Eldagsen has won the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards competition. Berliner was not looking for the price at all. He had other plans: a test. Bayerischer told Rundfunk: “I never thought the picture would go this far.” But died. Eldagsen refused the award. Its purpose: to start a discussion about artificial intelligence. Now he insists on a strict separation of photography and AI photography. Not because he thinks artificial intelligence is bad. Rather, it seeks recognition as an art form in its own right.

It went very quickly, and the song reached millions: “Heart in My Arms”. A stranger had uploaded it to Tiktok, Youtube, and then via streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music. Why did it go viral? It sounds exactly like it was said by US stars Drake and The Weeknd. A duet that never happened. One thing is for sure: a verbal sentence or three seconds of audio material is now enough to imitate a full sound in technical terms: to synthesize it.

Source : Blick