Top Generative AI and AI Art News from 2022

The world of art has been rocked by advancements in artificial intelligence. The advancement has manifested so quickly, that as the year comes to a close, the art community is worried. Many feel that thanks to AI’s ability to learn from human artists and mimic their style, soon the need for artists will shrink even more. Not only that, but public use of AI-powered tools such as DALL-E has brought this technology to the forefront of public conversation. It’s been an interesting year for generative AI.

So, here are our top stories in generative AI involving art, creativity, and generative AI news.

That’s because the program and others like it utilize training data from existing photos and pieces of art. In essence, taking images created by humans enhances its own ability. For many within the art community, it feels like plagiarism. On Twitter, the debate is raging on Lensa, and other programs, benefit or harm to art in general. Either way, AI is likely here to stay. The question is, how it will affect the art community in the long term?

Even though Meta and Google, among others, are pushing out text-to-image AI programs, Microsoft wasn’t going to be left behind. But instead of just releasing their own kind of text-to-image image generator, Microsoft is looking to make their program accessible and easy to use for the general public. Which, unlike Google and Meta, would be a first.

The interview goes for about 19 mins, and during that time you can almost forget that Jobs had passed away over ten years ago. Deepfake technology has been a concern for policymakers and law enforcement due to its potential to create fake evidence against individuals.

Similar to its text-to-photo cousins, Make-A-Video uses text data to create short videos. Following Meta’s Responsible AI Framework, Make-A-Video can also create text-to-photo. Right now, the Meta team has much to release, but it’s clear that there is a lot of research and development behind the program, which can potentially provide creators with a new avenue to create original content.

Disney has been a pioneer in using AI-powered tools in its films over the last few years. From de-aging actors with ML tools to creating an original scene with actors who’ve died decades prior, it’s no surprise that Disney is going all in with AI. So it was no surprise that the company would be at the forefront of AI-generated voice tracks. In this case, it would be the iconic voice of James Earl Jones that brought to life one of the greatest villains in cinema history, Darth Vader.

It’s clear that AI is causing a stir within the art community and many within it are not sure how to handle these tools. Other websites such as ArtStation and others have yet to weigh in on the matter, but it’s likely that as we enter 2023, the disruptions from AI-powered art-generating tools will cause more pushback from the art community.

Through the thread, they explained how the image came to be and how it continued to regenerate over and over again, leaving them wondering how it was possible and others calling it the first AI cryptid.

DALL-E Has Taken the Most Terrifying Selfies Ever

As the photos go on, they didn’t just depict Earth as just dead, or on fire, but a series of odd and disastrous events that seemed to have made the landscape unrecognizable as the humanoids taking the photos. The photos became a hit on TikTok where Robotoverlords made an eighteen-second video that showed each selfie.

There you have it, the top generative AI and AI art stories of 2022. What do you think? Are the fears of the art community valid? What do you think of all of these text-to-image generators and other programs that take text data and turn them into images and videos? Finally, now that AI seems to have entered the mainstream, how do you think it will affect the popular imagination and interest in artificial intelligence?

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