the Future ANTI-ARTIST?

Artists discuss negative effects of A.I. creation programs on art, creativity

Kaitlyn Nash | Co-Editor

With the recent developing abilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), many artists find themselves panicking at the extent to which these programs can steal art right from under their noses.

Already, artists and photography sites such as Getty Images have filed lawsuits against different programs such as Midjourny and Stable Diffusion, as they have been stealing copyrighted photos from photographers and artists.

“I’ve seen so many cases where people will be auto-generating art and it’ll be stealing them from the Internet,” senior Val Hernandez said. “It’ll be taking their art, claiming it as their own, or things like that.”

When generating art, some platforms such as Nightcafe give descriptions on how artwork was coded for, usually saying that it’s “in the style of” certain artists. Not only that, but some argue that artists’ commissions are being taken by these sites because they usually charge people to make A.I. generated art.

“It’s pretty damaging in the fact that it [takes] people’s jobs, essentially, because they think that this A.I. art can work, but people live off art,” Hernandez said. “Some people think that art is just so easy that it can be done by machines. It’s kind of silly because it’s the same way with robotics and people losing their jobs to machines. A.I. makes people afraid that their livelihood is at stake.”

So far, because the programs have not been around long, there are no regulations on A.I. art generators, and lawmakers are still trying to decide whether it infringes on copyright laws.

“Oftentimes, as we’ve seen before, they are taking certain things from artists and stealing without their permission,” junior Neptune Brewer

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said. “That’s not something that can be regulated efficiently so it’ll just keep stealing from artists who actually put more time and work and effort into that art.”

On the other hand, some artists believe that A.I. being involved in art can help simplify the process of creating works. However, Hernandez believes there is a difference.

“Maybe A.I. will autofill the color or something like that, or maybe it’ll auto do the lines,” Hernandez said. “That way, machines are efficiently improving it. That makes more sense than autogenerating whatever prompt you want and then stealing things from people. It should only be used to enhance something effectively rather than stealing.”

One other argument against A.I. art made by artists is that programs can make art seem like a one-and-done experience. AP Art teacher Jacqueline Cardenas believes any art created by the programs “loses its human touch.”

“I think it supports instant gratification culture, which just hinders society because they don’t understand the hard work that goes into creating,” Cardenas said.

Because A.I. is not a sentient machine, Hernandez believes that the act of “artmaking” cannot be done by A.I.

“It’s just ridiculous: art is of the person,” Hernandez said. “Art is not a thing of machines. Art is not about efficiency, it’s about expression. It’s about creativity and exploration.”

One solution presented by Hernandez is for any A.I. art sites to give credits to artists they pull the art from.

“People in charge of these programs need to figure out a way to credit the artists,” junior Diane Salazar said. “They could [develop] a system to determine whether an artist wants their art in these [designs].”

In recent years, technology has progressed immensely with improvements ranging from selfdriving cars to AI generated art. With these controversial advancements, A.I. writing has come into the mix. The biggest concern over this newfound way of writing in regards to academics and essay writing. An overlooked concern is how it will affect creativity.

AI writing sites and apps are given a prompt by the user and are thus generated into a full length written piece. Various concerns regarding the stunting of creativity, cheating, and whether or not it’s a valid form of writing arise from this.

“I think AI gives people a way to not have to think about or do their own work,” former creative writing junior Kelsie Herold said. “It takes away their potential for what they could create.”

The general prompt is typed by the user while the core of the story is written by A.I., which begs the question of if it can be labeled creative writing anymore. The process of writing involves much revising, writer’s block, and being forced to come up with your own ideas. That process is entirely wiped out with A.I.

“I think A.I. writing will make everything less emotional and more repetitive,” Herold said. “Things will start being the same stories with different characters.”

Kicking off a story with minimal assistance from the internet is not unheard of. It’s a fairly common tactic to get into the writing mood or be inspired. The main difference between using the internet and using A.I is that the internet is not doing the actual work of writing, developing characters, and forming the plot.

“It’s a good starting off point but it will never be able to mimic the complexities of writing that come out with truly experiencing those emotions as actual writing would,” English teacher Liana Gonzales said. Due to it being a computer generated story, Herold and Gonzales worry it won’t carry the same emotionally powerful messages and plot lines that could be created.

“I wouldn’t feel proud of anything I created from A.I. because it’s a computer doing it, not me,” Herold said.

The whole of creative writing relies on originality which AI writing removes.

“I would read an A.I. generated story out of curiosity, but I personally wouldn’t think of them as an author,” creative writing reader sophomore Laila Amro said. “Human writing is more personal and meaningful, too.”

In academics most teachers agree it couldn’t be considered one’s own work, and the same goes for creative writing.

“I do think it’s cheating if you pass it off as your own,” Gonzales said. “Though with writing everything in essence is borrowing of some sort that you make into your own and if you truly only use it as a stepping stone then I wouldn’t consider it cheating.”

It appears that A.I. writing has more negatives than positives with it stunting creativity and most not considering it authentic writing.

“With creative writing, you want that to be something that’s totally yours and unique,” Gonzales said. “It’s something that comes from your