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Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., is being used more frequently as time goes on. With so many pieces of software being \u201ctaught\u201d how to be creative, it\u2019s safe to say there\u2019s a lot of overlap when it comes to A.I. and the actual humans who dedicate their lives to perfecting their crafts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I continue, I want to make clear the distinction between some different types of artificial intelligence. The ultimate goal with A.I. is to reach the level of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). An AGI system would be able to learn, adapt, problem-solve, and communicate completely on its own, without having to rely on predefined algorithms. In laymans terms, it\u2019d basically be sentient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AGI encompasses both \u201ctrue A.I\u201d and \u201cpredictive models\u201d to some extent. Often when people are talking about predictive models, they refer to it as A.I, when it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

True A.I., typically refers to systems that can understand, learn, and apply knowledge in a way that mimics human cognitive abilities. This type of A.I. often gets mixed up with AGI because of how similar and advanced they appear to be. True A.I systems need to incorporate predictive models to function, but predictive models themselves are not A.I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Predictive models are not inherently bad. There are many predictive model systems that have some practical real world uses. \u2018Linear Regression\u2019 is a relatively simple one, that can be used to predict house prices based on features like size, number of bedrooms, etc. \u2018Logistic Regression\u2019 is another classification algorithm used to predict the probability of a binary outcome. It is commonly used in healthcare, for example, and predicts the likelihood of diseases based on patient characteristics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AlphaFold, which can predict the structure of proteins based on their amino acid sequences, has had significant implications for drug discovery, and understanding diseases. There\u2019s also IBM Watson, which analyses large volumes of data, answers questions, and provides insights across various industries, including healthcare, finance, and customer service. ChatGPT is also one you\u2019re likely to be familiar with. It is a text based predictive model that allows you to prompt for code, poetry, or anything else text based, but it is just a predictive model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there are the predictive models that \u201ccreate\u201d artwork, music, and poetry. Systems like; AIVA, which \u2018composes\u2019 classical music. There\u2019s DALL-E which is capable of generating images or \u201cartwork\u201d from text prompts given to it by users. There\u2019s even Adobe introducing its own \u201cgenerative fill\u201d feature to Adobe Photoshop. These are the ones that people have been making a lot of noise about in the past year, and the ones I have issues with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From this point on in this blog, when I say A.I.s, I\u2019m referring to those \u201ccreative\u201d predictive models that people generally refer to, or think of as A.I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could go into detail about how damaging these A.I.s are, and how they tend to steal from real artists to smash together the pictures they claim were created with no outside help. I could dedicate this blog to all of my fellow creatives, because regardless of your medium, we all share the same distaste for this abhorrent stab at our passions. There\u2019s a lot of conversation happening around \u2018A.I.\u2019 in general, and the work that \u2018A.I. Artists\u2019 produce, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, there have been many ways that artists have their work dismissed. Usually by people who believe that they\u2019re being lied to when we tell them how long a certain piece took, and how much skill and practice it takes to get to that point. For many traditional artists (that use copic markers, paint, or any other medium of that sort), for example, their work is often claimed to be traced, or fake in some way that only the accuser can spot. A recently new one, in the past decade or so, is claiming that their pieces have been printed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital artists, like myself, have had all sorts of claims thrown our way. From claiming that our work is easy because the computer does all the work for you, or that digital art isn\u2019t real art, and that it doesn\u2019t count because it\u2019s not made with a pencil and paper. I\u2019ve had people dismiss my work, solely because they think it didn\u2019t take any real skill to do it, and that they could replicate it without trying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newest one to add to the pile now, is asking if my pieces were done by \u2018A.I.\u2019, and it\u2019s grating a little bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve had it a few times now, by many different people, both in the form of an accusation, and a seemingly innocent question. I can accept that in today\u2019s day and age, to the untrained eye, it can be difficult to spot the difference. I am not upset at the question if it is genuine. I\u2019d rather be asked than have the theory hanging in the air without me being able to defend my work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What tends to sting, however, are the people who use that claim to dismiss my work completely, even if they know there\u2019s a real person behind it. I spend many hours creating my artwork. All the pieces I have online currently have collectively taken years of my life to produce, and that\u2019s not even taking into account all the pieces I\u2019ve created over the years, that have got me to where I am with my art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we look at one art piece of mine in particular, like Discovering the Lost<\/em>, for example; that piece took me months to complete. I\u2019m not talking about the space in-between each time I sit down at my PC, I\u2019m talking about actually sat down and working on it. If you squash all of that working time together, it took me an insane amount of hours to finish. Every single one of my main pieces follow that same pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, you have the amount of time I\u2019ve spent on creating a world within my work. Granted, I don\u2019t have a lot of it written down or sketched out yet, but the amount of time, and thought that goes into how I can tie each piece together, and what species I want to create and feature, and what lore I want to reveal is definitely lengthy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been drawing since I was old enough to hold a pencil. I have piles of books, and stacks of loose paper that are solely dedicated to sketches I\u2019ve done over the many, many years I\u2019ve been drawing. Eventually, my skills started developing digitally. I have several files on my computer filled with old art pieces, many of which I still tend to take inspiration from in my current work. I digress slightly, but the point is that it has taken me decades to get to where I am now with my work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people who use A.I. to create work and pass it off as their own, regardless of the kind of creativity they want to tap into, are trying to shortcut the entire process. Anyone can be creative, and I wouldn\u2019t dare try to stop anybody from becoming a photographer, painter, musician, or dancer, but you cannot shortcut the effort and learning needed to get to a decent level at your chosen craft. Most of all, these predictive models steal from real artist\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love my art so intensely. When I spend too long without picking up my pen, I feel like a part of me is missing, and the only way to feel complete again is to lose myself in what I\u2019m creating. My art is a fundamental part of who I am, and I love every second I spend creating it, whether that\u2019s the lore side or the actual art side of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an engineer and roboticist, true A.I. and AGI excites me. I think that it could have some really practical real-world uses, and that it\u2019s something that should be explored (carefully \u2013 sci-fi makes this look like potentially dangerous territory).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an artist, though, predictive \u2018A.I.\u2019 terrifies me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of what kind of creative you are; a musician, a dancer, a painter, or any other kind of artist, being creative is more than being able to do it. It\u2019s more than simply possessing the ability to pick up a guitar and play the right chords. Whatever song you hope to play with that guitar will never sound right unless you have the emotion and the passion behind it. Creativity has always walked hand-in-hand with emotion, and feeling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is where predictive models falter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A dancer will never look fluid, free and effortless, unless they dance with emotion. Art will never look or feel right unless there is passion and feeling behind the work. With anything creative, it takes time to learn. However, while all art is attainable for all humans, it must take dedication, time, and passion to make it worthwhile doing at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being an artist of any kind is more than just the end result. It\u2019s about adoring the process of actually creating. Encoding passion and emotion into art lets others draw it out at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a theory that because people are finding ways to shortcut the learning process of being creative, they don\u2019t fully understand why many artists have such a huge issue with generative A.I. artwork. They see it as the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to finish this blog with one poignant example;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1989, a pop artist by the name of Keith Haring created one of his final pieces. This piece is only known and referred to as \u201cUnfinished Painting\u201d. Keith died in 1990 at the young age of 31. His passing was caused by AIDS-related complications, and that piece was a self-portrait of his unfinished life. It was left unfinished on purpose, to honour all the people (including himself), who died unfairly early because of the AIDS epidemic.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A few months ago, a Redditor decided to have predictive A.I. \u201cfinish\u201d that piece. If we ignore the blatant disrespect and clear lack of understanding behind this piece, and art in general, the \u201cfinished\u201d piece has no feeling behind it. Without having seen the real work, you can clearly see where the A.I. takes over. The patterns make no sense, and exactly like I said above; there\u2019s no feeling, no emotion, and no artist.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The original was already completed. It doesn\u2019t matter that there\u2019s most of the canvas still showing, or that you\u2019ll never see what the finished version looks like. You were never supposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to say that again; You were never supposed to. The original piece is a visual exampl of Keith\u2019s unfinished life. A life he knew he\u2019d never see the result of. This artwork shows that emotion in a truly beautiful and heartbreaking way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, the \u2018completed\u2019 version was only done with predictive A.I.. Put the original through A.I. again and it\u2019ll give you a completely different prediction. A.I. will never be able to predict how Keith would have finished it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When AGI is finally achieved, and we have sentient machines living alongside us, that are capable of creating something only they could come up with (like human artists do today), then I will have no complaints about machines making artwork. Right now, though, these systems and the people who use them, do not properly comprehend what art actually is. It\u2019s more than pattern recognition. It\u2019s often a lifetime\u2019s worth of dedictation and emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, to conclude; no, I do not use A.I. in any of my work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cerys, out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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