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“Describe what you want the AI to create”
This is what the AI art programme asked me to do today and I was completely blank.
I have seen a lot of AI art programmes lately, each of which are remarkable and which absolutely inspire me to wonder at the extent to which computer technology can now demonstrate the capacity to imagine.
The problem with this simple instruction is that I don’t think I wanted the AI to create anything. I wanted to create something. I still wanted to be the artistic lead in an AI design interface. I want, after having used the medium, to claim the work as my own, to be the ghost in the machine which assumes creative credit.
I came here to write about it.
I read further into the application and was advised that I needed to buy credits to continue generating art work. Is this the new economic model underpinning the art sector? Borrowing from social media sites to establish a flow of customers. It seems wise in a climate of limited funds. Indeed, this was the bargain we struck with social media. We create and the tools simplify that process to maximise productivity. The tools are so amazing that we claim creativity just by using them in a way that is more creative than our peers. This may be what art entails anyway.
