AI Art is it Real Art and Does it Have its Place in Creativity

 AI is new to many and does it have its place in the arts. Many are afraid of AI and more embrace it. will it drive the art world or can it destroy it. As an artist, I have not used AI for my creative works. A couple years back when NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) was the fad AI was a tool used to create variants of NFTs.

AI had some interesting effects on my art.  AI tools were not something I needed for the works of art at that phase of my artistic development. Keeping to the traditional method of creating art using physical materials to make art and getting the artist's hands dirty is key to personal development in the arts. 

Flash forward to AI taking root in our society and the feeling that AI can be a tool for great art is good for those artists who embrace a revolution in the arts.

Here is some more information on AI and art:

If it wasn’t created by a human artist, is it still art?

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Written by Liz Mineo

Harvard Staff Writer

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Writer, animator, architect, musician, and mixed-media artist detail potential value, limit of works produced by AI

The emergence of AI-image generators, such as DALL-E 2, Discord, Midjourney, and others, has stirred a controversy over whether art generated by artificial intelligence should be considered real art — and whether it could put artists and creators out of work. The Gazette spoke with faculty who are involved in the production of art — a writer, a film animator, an architect, a musician, and a mixed-media artist — to ask them whether they see AI as a threat or a collaborator or a tool to further their own creativity and imagination. The interviews have been edited for length and clarity.

“AI is acting like a sort of collective unconscious.” 

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Independent animator Ruth Stella Lingford, senior lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies

“That sense of interplay, or the ability to react in the moment, is something that artificial intelligence can’t reproduce.”

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Mixed-media artist Matt Saunders ’97, professor and director of undergraduate studies, Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies

“We should be grateful to be challenged and knocked out of our habits and assumptions!”

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Mixed-media artist Matt Saunders ’97, professor and director of undergraduate studies, Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies

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