The way we think payment should be distributed to the different parties involved in creating art with AI will depend on whether we imbue the AI with human characteristics. Eva Amsen explains.
In 2018, the AI-generated painting Edmond de Belamy sold for $432,500 at Christie's Auction House. Of course, computer programs can't receive auction proceeds, so the money went to Obvious, the artist collective that selected Edmond de Belamy from the AI's output. This got researchers at MIT Media Lab and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development wondering how people decide who gets credit for art that was created using artifical intelligence. After all, there would have been many different people involved in producing and selecting the original art used as the AI's training data, in creating the program, and in curating the final output. In a recently published paper they showed that who gets credit for AI-generated art all depends on how we think and talk about the role of AI... Keep reading on Forbes
In 2018, the AI-generated painting Edmond de Belamy sold for $432,500 at Christie's Auction House. Of course, computer programs can't receive auction proceeds, so the money went to Obvious, the artist collective that selected Edmond de Belamy from the AI's output. This got researchers at MIT Media Lab and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development wondering how people decide who gets credit for art that was created using artifical intelligence. After all, there would have been many different people involved in producing and selecting the original art used as the AI's training data, in creating the program, and in curating the final output. In a recently published paper they showed that who gets credit for AI-generated art all depends on how we think and talk about the role of AI... Keep reading on Forbes