Artificial intelligence has been a term we’ve encountered all our lives in science and pop culture. Recent years have seen a rise in the development of technology in artificial intelligence, with machines becoming more and more capable of performing human-like tasks and replicating human actions, like art-making and conversations.
From the time Alan Turing discussed building intelligent machines in 1950, to popular shows and movies like Avengers: The Rise of Ultron or Netflix’s Black Mirror, and even in our own homes with Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant, artificial intelligence has been a long time coming.
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In September of 2022, the company OpenAI released its first public version of Dall-E (or, Dall- E 2), an artificial intelligence program that gives users the power to create previously unexisting images by simply writing a prompt. For example, when prompted “lancer wearing orange clothing galloping on a horse with a sunset in the background; futuristic painting,” Dalle-E generated the following picture:
AI generated an image when prompted “lancer wearing orange clothing galloping on a horse with a sunset in the background; futuristic painting.” (n.d.). OpenAI. https://labs.openai.com/
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The software Dall-E has been trained to analyze and sort millions of digital images found across the Internet into categories, allowing it to compile certain pictures from these categories into a new artwork upon the user's request. Essentially, when asked to generate the above image, Dall-E took key words like “lancer” or “sunset,” found stored images related to those keywords, and mixed them to create its own interpretation of the given prompt.
Implications of Dall-E-
There are currently two pending court cases exploring this same question. A lawsuit filed by Getty Images in the U.K. is suing the company Stable Diffusion (with similar technologies as OpenAI) for copyright violations, and three artists have taken up a case in a California court under a similar situation. Both parties argue that because AI technologies use the works of other artists as a basis for their software, the artworks generated cannot technically be called “authentic,” and thus, artists should be paid or credited. Ultimately, the main goal of this lawsuit is not to gain money, but to protect the relevance of artists and ensure that artists don’t go out of business in the upcoming years.
Fortunately, there are benefits to the development of these technologies. For instance, faster art-making tech will allow designers and companies to create artwork more efficiently and at cheaper costs. More importantly, as AI becomes faster and better able to retain reliable information, doctors may be able to consult AI for treatments or medicines that can be used to properly target illnesses within patients, based on the characteristics of a person’s body or symptoms.
The field of artificial intelligence is still in its early stages, and it’s uncertain which companies will take the lead in the development of AI. Nevertheless, despite how useful and life-changing AI technologies are said to be, it’s important to remember— it’s still a robot.
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