It’s not hard to understand why artists are concerned about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in art. At Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition in 2022, a prize was awarded to an artwork that was, unbeknown to the judges, generated by AI. This year, a class action lawsuit has been filed against a trio of AI text-to-image generators, alleging that the data sets used to train the platforms’ algorithms made use of billions of copyrighted images without compensation or consent from the artists.
For artists, seeing a computer imitate and manipulate work intrinsically tied to their identity can be devastating. Some even wonder
