About AI generated art.

A piece of text-based art that reads “AI generated art will soon become so commonplace that it will devalue the appreciation of all art”.

I occasionally relax by spending time scrolling through social media looking at art and photography. In recent months I’ve become more and more perturbed by the amount of work that bears all of the hallmarks of being generated by artificial intelligence. They often betray themselves by being quite eye-catching while also being a bit slick and soulless. The outcome is that I no longer trust what I’m looking at. Things will only get worse as AI gets better at disguising itself.

One day in the worryingly near future we will be swamped by AI generated images that are for all practical purposes indistinguishable from images created by real human beings who have had real human experiences. Eventually it will be assumed that all images are AI generated, and all images will become essentially valueless as art. People will assume that Vermeer’s painting Girl with a pearl earring comes from the same source as his other painting, Girl with a pearl keyring. The wonder will be lost and we will all be poor for it.

This piece of text-based art isn’t so much art as a warning about the future of art. It’s generated by a human.