Artificial intelligence is increasingly influencing our everyday lives. From chatbots, social media, CGI, studying, and more, the impact of AI is monumental.
The advancement of AI technology brings a multitude of significant risks, but most importantly, we must not allow AI to replace artists if we wish to maintain art at all.
The matter of using AI for academic plagiarism is a glaring issue, but academic bodies already agree that the use of AI in that situation is a serious threat. The underlying sinister risk of AI development is harder to solve—the loss of imaginative innovation.
AI is a unique technology with the ability to replicate human creativity, while computers and machines are left with busy work. How has it developed this strange capacity for inventiveness?
The intricate algorithms of AI can be challenging to understand, but in simplified terms, AI models are trained on significant amounts of data to replicate human output. This method of production indicates that, rather than crafting mysterious pieces of innovation, AI fuses together former human innovations.
While there are several ways artists draw inspiration from one another, AI is different. Allusions and inspiration in art involve tasteful references, and integration of the expression of one artist into their own art.
This kind of process demands emotion and a personal understanding of another work of art, and it takes time. Models of artificial intelligence mass-produce bland, tasteless, and impersonal works of art in a matter of seconds.
Even if AI could comprehend the complexity of art on such a level, that would not mean it could create art. True artists not only express themselves—they find ways to push the boundaries of creative innovation, which plagiarism can never achieve.
AI does not have original feelings, emotions, experiences, or expression, so what makes us say that any AI creation can be valued as “art?”
