AI generated art is one of the latest areas of the coming wave of the artificial intelligence revolution. Artist have staged protests regarding models like Lensa, OpenAI’s GPT3 and the Diffusion AI generation models, since they were trained on artist’s image and can generated images in the style of an artist, with no attribution or compensation. Video inspired in part by the Artstation artist AI protest

I believe the artist staging the AI is theft protest are correct, their work was used in training machine learning models. These models would crawl the internet, and scrape images along with the alt text as a training data set, and thus can recreate images in very specific styles.

AI generated art is the current area of discussion in terms of the continuing automation of the economy and industry? What happens to the people and workers that get displaced? What happens to the wealth that will be generated by more efficient businesses and industry? Who is best positioned to take advantaged in the marketplace of these new, and efficient tools and technologies.

Currently AI tools are limited by many factors, among them computational and processing resources, but these limitations will be over come with time. What happens when natural language processing bots can convincingly generate misinformation articles? What happens when spam bot getting better and more clever? In time, image and video processing will be get better, what will be the impact of easy to generate deep fake videos generated by discriminatory and generative neural networks?

My concerns is not just AI, but who will be in control in these high tech business tools. The coming of AI and machine learning will not change the structure of our capitalist society, where wealth has been shifting up to the wealthy more and more with the passing of the decades. I fear AI and machine learning will be used to accelerate the process of wealth accumulation by the wealthy and “elites”.

Images were sourced from reddit.com/r/aiArt, generated with OpenAIs GPT3 or using Tensorflow’s Fast Style transfer algorithm

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Style transfer script: https://www.tensorflow.org/hub/tutorials/tf2_arbitrary_image_stylization

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