Art : AI vs Human I

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So with no further ado, as you all know, AI has made enormous strides this past year from ChatGPT to Gencraft to HotPotIn a way that when it comes to paintings, you usually cannot tell what's made by hand and what's made by an AI model.

At first, it seemed scary to many artists that their hard work can be discarded by running some epochs by a machine learning model and their days of hard work and dedication to their craft can be replaced in moments.

While it's valid that this dystopian reality is actually happening, but that doesn't mean we as artists cannot make the most of it to the argument that history, in a way, repeats itself for this "event" that happened before in the peak of precious metals hunt, and it reminds me of when diamonds were heavily sought after, and smart people did what smart people do by spoiling the fun making it possible to discard nature's hard work for thousands of years, and they created diamonds in labs. Dinosaurs were pretty bummed about that because they thought they were special, but what ended up happening is simply natural diamond prices skyrocketed even more and became more precious.

I don't know if it's just me, but that reminds me of our precious art: the more ai makes art, the more art becomes available, the more human art becomes scarce, and the more artists become appreciated... Or we would just be replaced, with no goals or purpose in life and die alone but let's focus on the first alternative.

So how can we actually make that happen? Well, first we need to make it possible to identify which is which, For the normal eye most of the AI art cannot be identified from its human-made counterpart. Well, that's especially true for the untrained eyes, AKA rich people who find colored squares interesting. 

Then how can we make it possible for everyone to identify the diamond from the coal? That is where my idea comes in as a data scientist and an artist (ironically enough), I had the idea of working on an AI model that identifies paintings made by an algorithm from those made by humans.


I know groundbreaking ideas hold your applause yet, as obvious and "easy" as it sounds, it needs to be heavily supported by my experience as an artist and with the right tools of AI to make it possible.

As this is getting too long for our TikTok attention-spanned brains, I will speak about the methodology in the next post as it will be more technical, and if you're still reading to this point, I'm actually proud of you.


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