And most of his followers don’t realize they’re AI.
But is it even art?
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Art can be anything, from a painstakingly-created painting to asplash of waterin the desert sand.
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What it all has in common is intention.
Avery told Ars Technica that his 160 Instagram posts are the result of 13,723 images.
He reckons each piece of work requires him to generate around 85 photos of source material and discards.
A portrait of a woman created using artificial intelligence.Art Hauntington / Unsplash
Only instead of hunting through already-printed images to collage, Avery has to hunt through already-generated AI images.
And on the other hand, theUS Copyright Office just ruledthat Midjourney-generated images cannot be copyrighted.
Modern AI simply isn’t good enough to truly create from scratch.
And this is where it all gets confusing.
Is it still non-copyrightable AI?
Or does it fall under the same considerations as collaged material?
And can it even be sold, as it is based on possibly-illegal copyrighted material of other creators?
However this ends up, AI won’t replace photography any more than photography replaced drawing and painting.
It will just transform its purpose.
“Photographers that capture weddings and events couldn’t recreate those with AI.
Sometimes, you just need to record a picture of real people doing real things.
