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If you’ve scrolled social media lately, chances are you’ve come across AI-generated art. Maybe a serene landscape or quirky cartoon avatar caught your eye.
Either way, this art wasn’t created with human hands, but rather by artificial intelligence.
In the span of a few months, AI art generators like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion have gone mainstream. Their uncannily skilled robotic artists can conjure nearly any image you describe with varying degrees of photorealism.
Want to see an astronaut riding a horse on Mars? How about an impressionist still life of fruit in the style of Cézanne? For AI, no ask is too big — or bizarre.
Democratizing art or devaluing artists?
As awe-inspiring as the outputs can be, AI art has also stirred immense controversy. Critics argue these tools threaten human creatives’ livelihoods by flooding the internet with synthetic media. Others counter they actually expand access to art and can inspire human artists.
Synthetic masterpieces or cheap forgeries?
The core of the debate centers around whether AI-made images qualify as art at all. Skeptics allege they…
