Cliff Pratt @ monday 03 july 2023, 03:46

It is unfair when people claim that your art is AI, but what do they mean by that? That you've put in a bunch of words and out popped your art? That is nonsense. That your work looks like it was generated by a computer? That's insulting. So I would suggest that you just ignore stuff like that.

But. I bet your tools already have AI features in them. When you use a fudge tool. When you use a tool to sharpen a line. Someone had to code the intelligence behind these tools. When you soften an area of your image someone worked out how to do this and built the intelligence into the program. This where AI will shine in the future. It won't be necessary to use words to control the AI of the future. You will just draw a line or shade an area with colour, and the AI behind your program will help. If you don't like the help, you will just use your brush to change things and the AI will remember it for next time. The next time you draw a new scene the AI will remember the shadings and the fudgings and the sharpenings and will assist you. It will remember the results of the "complex mix of emotions, shapes, colours and textures" that you applied last time, and that will often be what you want. You want to express different things, then, fine, override the AI, the AI will remember what you did, and get better at helping you. I predict that over time digital artists will use the AI tools, the future ones, and it won't even be an issue, and "AI Generated Art", where the AI does most of the work and the 'artist' just lets it, will find its own niche. I'm thinking adverts and cartoons here. You mention book covers and album covers.

This sort of issue has arisen before. When people first produced 'digital art', it was looked down as not real art, but OK for cartoons and kids' first efforts, I can imagine paper artists scoffing "It's just a bunch of coloured squares!" But these days films that use digital effects are praised for the realism of the effects. "Graphic designers" are highly regarded. The digital artist is the latest evolution of the artist, and maybe the 'AI-assisted digital artist' is the next evolution. We cannot tell. It is early days yet.