AI Art: Will It Make Artists Obsolete?

<p>If you&rsquo;ve been following the hype about the developments in artificial intelligence (AI) image-generation over the past few months, you might be wondering whether it&rsquo;s the end of the road for artists. That&rsquo;s the question many journalists have been posing.</p> <p>If this issue hasn&rsquo;t been on your radar, here&rsquo;s a quick rundown. For years machine learning systems have been scraping through all the images they can find online whilst recording the accompanying text descriptions to create datasets. This process trains the AI. It has become so sophisticated that the systems have learned to associate words and phrases with certain types of pictures. We can now type any words into software tools like&nbsp;<a href="https://openai.com/dall-e-2/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Dall-E 2</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://stablediffusionweb.com/#demo" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Stable Diffusion</a>&nbsp;and generate weird and wonderful imagery, a composite of all the images in the dataset. Here&rsquo;s a two minute easy explainer of how this type of software works:</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/counterarts/ai-art-will-it-make-artists-obsolete-a89f96ce6229"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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