Artists with disabilities find it useful.

"With painting and watercolor and collage, those required more dexterity and the ability to sit up for long periods of time. As my disease progressed, those things became more and more difficult."

I learned how to do some prompting and I was able to create a piece of art that would have been an incredibly difficult thing for me to do before.

It was really just having this moment of feeling like I had been given a little bit of my humanity back. And that was sort of the most empowering thing that came out of AI for me — and the ability to create again."

Amnesty International and Fight for the Future's 5th Salon on Generative AI

Amli Art - She's been suffering from a chronic illness since age 13. 
Hear more from her and other artists in this video.

AI is changing music forever
Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst

Holly Herndon is a singer who created an AI trained on her own voice.

“What does it mean to be an artist when anybody can create as you?” 

 “Do you say, ‘Nobody should be able to create as me, and I’m gonna shut this down’?”

“Or do you lean into it and say, ‘Let’s acknowledge that this is now a thing, and see how far we can take it’?”

Watch the video to learn about this experiment with consent.

200+ artists and songwriters wrote this letter about irresponsible use of AI.

"We, the undersigned members of the artist and songwriting communities, call on AI developers, technology companies, platforms and digital music services to cease the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists.

Make no mistake: we believe that, when used responsibly, AI has enormous potential to advance human creativity and in a manner that enables the development and growth of new and exciting experiences for music fans everywhere."

Read the full letter.

Artists Rights Alliance

Northern Lights
Steve D McDonald on Instagram

Steve D. McDonald advises artists to create their own models.

"I've spent the holidays making some custom diffusion models for creating and remixing skies. They might be some of favorite yet. 

As far as 'process' my advice is to try to create your own. "

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Some artists are so angry about the possibility of AI models training on their images, that they are using a  tool that "poisons" AI models.

The tools is called "Nightshade." It's created by computer scientists from the University of Chicago. When an artist applies this to their images, they are changed  slightly at the pixel level so other AI models see something completely different.

The idea is that an AI model trained on images changed with Nightshade would start to make mistakes, misidentifying objects for all users, even in images that hadn't been altered with Nightshade. 

However, some say it's unlikely to work and these solutions can be easily bypassed.

Image generated with DALL•E 3

Fluid-filled bulbous bladders.
AI-rendered imaginaries from Midjourney’s latent space.

Joshua Vermillion on Instagram

Joshua Vermillion teaches workshops on using AI for design and architecture.

As a design technologist he uses machines to augment his creative activities. See his workshops.

Vermillion is an associate professor of architecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Sabina Mutsvati, fine artist, is using AI and VR in her work.

Electric South (a nonprofit in Capetown), offers "design futures labs" for local artists. They teach artists about AR, VR, and AI.

In the words of artist, Savina Mutsvati,
"I think it has already started to change the way I see my work.... I've been told about so many new tools that can be used, the AR, the VR, the AI."

Sabina Mutsvati, fine artist, Capetown South Africa
Hear from her and others in this video.

A webinar from Electric South

Using AI art as acts of resistance

Sandra Rodriguez advocates for artists to "disrupt the narrative" by creatively repurposing and detouring AI tools in unexpected ways.

She puts out a call for artists/creators to be "acts of resistance" by creatively disrupting and challenging the development of AI rather than passively accepting dominant narratives.

AI Artists is a global community of artists exploring artificial intelligence.

Their site includes:

• Creative tools for generating AI art
• A timeline of AI art history
• Key questions about AI that humanity needs to answer to minimize its risk and maximize its benefit.

AIArtists.org

A global clearinghouse of resources on
AI’s impact on art and culture.