Many well-know artists have outsourced the actual material craft of their artworks to other people for decades (
Warhol’s Factory,
Jeff Koons). What are the differences of this approach to using an AI system to create the work?
Is it ethical to train AI models without the consent of the artists who created the original artworks?
Are AI generators democratizing art? Or are they killing all meaning from making art and exploiting humans?
Who is benefiting from all of this?
Explore communities of AI art and “traditional” art. Note the toxicity in both towards each other.