AI Generators

• Image Generators
• Video

AI Generators

Datasets

• LAION-5B Dataset
• Have I Been Trained? A website for searching the actual images that were used to train the LAION-5B Dataset.

Articles and Other Readings

• Artificial Aesthetics: A Critical Guide to AI, Media and Design
• Getty Images files lawsuit against Stability AI in USA
• Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. 1935
• Computer Art: Is it Really Art?

Questions to think about

• Who is the artist in the AI art era?
• 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.

Uncategorized Links

• Watch Me Forever AI generated neverending TV show in the style of Jerry Seinfeld but with what the AI thinks is funny.
• AI Weirdness by Janelle Shane
• https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/
• https://github.com/features/copilot
• https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex/
• https://theresanaiforthat.com/