The AI Art Epidemic and How To Fix It
Recently, there has been a surge of AI art that has been rising in popularity within the past few years.
Companies, schools, and even artists have been using AI to for a plethora of reasons: advertisements, events, or to simply show off as part of their collection. However, this is dangerous for the integrity of art as a whole.
AI may be an important tool to assist humans, but it cannot be used to make something that can be so easily hand drawn. The pictures AI has to come up with used to look horrible and unrealistic, but now it can almost perfectly replicate any kind of picture it’s given. It’s a scary thought: trying to figure out which art is real and genuine and which one was made by AI.
As a result of this, art galleries and contests have recently banned any AI art in their showcases. The purpose of art is to be made by humans who need to let out their creative spark; it can be hand drawn or digitalized with technology that doesn’t use AI to generate creativity. And yet, the AI art epidemic keeps getting worse, as AI could not only make people think less of it, but it could also mislead consumers thinking about a product that’s either entirely wrong or doesn’t even exist.
So, what can we do about this epidemic? For starters, don’t use AI. It’ll slow the spread of it, and it’ll allow anyone to make something. Another thing is to notify anyone about its usage. If enough knowledge is out there, then we’ll be able to phase AI art out entirely, and we can go back to using our own creativity to make the art we want to see.
