The use of artificial intelligence to generate art will devalue all art

The ease with which artworks can be generated by AI will undermine art

AI hasn’t been around long, so it hasn’t reached its full potential yet, but it’s already capable of turning out works of art of a passable standard. All it needs are a few prompts and away it goes.

AI generated art is already very prominent on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, almost to the point where it’s easy to make the assumption that any work of art on the platforms is the product of AI rather than of the human hand.

The ease with which a generative AI image or video can be produced, simply by inputting a few prompt words and phrases, means that AI generated work is usually artistically barren, being nothing more than elaborate pastiche. This has the knock on effect of devaluing all art and of undermining the creative process by which an artist struggles to create a work.