One day, I opened Twitter and saw a certain type of artwork. Users were saying they wrote a word or prompt and they got an artwork as a result.
After reading comments saying “what app?”, I learned that the website is called Dream by WOMBO.
Some similar predecessors are DALL-E, and VQGAN+CLIP, both focused on creating images from prompts.
However, Dream by WOMBO took it further and now is known as the most accessible.
Regarding this website, I have some questions:
As of now, it is not considered an artist. Will it ever be? What makes an artist?
I have also seen that, if the AI learns from other people’s art, where is the credit for the original artists?
I am curious about the future of AI art tech. What will come next?
1 Comment
Rain Yan · March 14, 2022 at 11:40 pm
Wow this is a cool post. I have seen some of WOMBO’s works on my instagram feed by one of my friends. As someone really interested in both art and machine learning. Generative art seems like a fascinating field. But as you have said there are some very deep questions that can be raised. Specifically if the AIs can be considered artists or not. In my interpretation, I often associate the creation of art as a somewhat intentional process. With the current stage of AI, no AI is truly sentimental in a sense that they have conscious control of this art creation of process, but rather, the generations are generally done through an algorithm approach, perhaps mixed in with mathematical randomness. Therefore, with this definition, I don’t yet think the AI can be claimed as artist, but the definition of art and artist will inevitably vary from person to person, and who knows what the future may hold?
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