Creativity and AI
The rise in use of AI technologies to generate music, images and speech has led to one of the biggest conversations around AI being its impact on creativity and the creative arts.
The Conversation
"I think of it as a way to enable artists to expand their creativity and productivity as well. You can think of it as a productivity tool."
Ahmed Elgammal
"The interests of developers who use copyrighted materials for ingestion by AI systems must not be prioritised over the rights and interests of creators..."
The Copyright Alliance
“The major upside of AI is that it democratizes creativity.”
Matthew Hutson
“My fear is that our industry will be diminished to such a point that very few of us can make a living.”
Karla Ortiz
“Instead of a replacement for human expertise, we should see it as a tool of advancement to be used alongside humans to improve the quality of their work.”
Pearl Lam
"As is often the case, the hype around these tools as disruptive forces outstrips the reality. In fact, art history shows us that technology has rarely directly displaced humans from work they wanted to do."
Chloe Preece / Hafize Çelik
Summary
Some creatives & artists use AI tools to improve and explore their creative practice, viewing AI tools as another medium with which to create.
Historically, artists have responded to new technologies by adopting them in wonderful and innovative ways.
Generative AI tools rely on being trained on the work of people who often haven’t consented to their work being used to train the AI technology.
When using Generative AI tools to create images and music, there are still unanswered questions around where the ownership and copyright sit.
Using AI tools to be creative can make being artistic more accessible to people who experience barriers to showing their creativity.
It isn’t always easy or free to use AI technologies to be creative, so ensuring that people have the training and skills to take advantage of them is important for adoption.
Generative AI is now being used to perform tasks that used to be undertaken by a human worker, shifting the creative industries labour market and creating job displacement.
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