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Defensive Software Products & Services for Artists

Glaze
Glaze is a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry.
Spawning
Actively block AI scrapers from your website with Spawning's defense network.

Nightshade - Combative Software

Arstechnica 10.25.23 University of Chicago researchers seek to "poison" AI art generators with Nightshade
Cornell University 10.30.23 Research Study: Nightshade - Prompt-specific poisoning attacks on text-to-image generative models.
The Daily Beast 10.24.23 Artists Can Now Sabotage AI Image Generators to Fight Art Theft
MIT Technology 10.24.23 This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against Generative AI.

AI Apps

There's an AI for That!
The latest AI generators available. Updated daily.

Occupational Outlook

College Graduates Report Feeling Threatened by AI
BestColleges.com (Jan, 2023)
If it wasn’t created by a human artist, is it still art?
The Harvard Gazette 08/2023
The Rise of AI in China's Video Game Art Scene: 70% Job Loss and 40x Productivity Spike
-LinkedIn (5/2023)
Career Talk : Ai-Imagery, Now, or in the Future, or Ever?
3x3: The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, (2023)
A.I.’s threat to jobs prompts question of who protects workers.
New York Times (Online) 05/2023

Gov Docs

Artificial Intelligence and Copyright
The United States Copyright Office 8/2023
Generative Artificial Intelligence
Overview, Issues, and Questions for Congress 06/2023
AI and Copyright Law
CRS Reports 05/2023
Artificial intelligence and intellectual property interoperability of AI and copyright law
Hearing - House of Representatives (5/2023)

Opinions from around the web

Artists Attack AI: Why The New Lawsuit Goes Too Far
Copyrightlately.com (Jan, 2023)
When AI can make art – what does it mean for creativity?
The Guardian (Nov, 2022)
Don't panic yet, writers and artists — an AI takeover is not inevitable.
Los Angeles Times (April, 2023)

AI Art & Design Gallery

Each image in this gallery was created in less than 10 seconds by a text-to-image AI generator called Gencraft.

AI in the Art Classroom

Che Wei Peh, C. (2023). Is AI generating an ’averaged’, one-sided, view of art history? Art Newspaper, 31(358), 23.
Fan, X., & Li, J. (2023). Artificial intelligence-driven interactive learning methods for enhancing art and design education in higher institutions. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 37(1).
Hutson, J., & Robertson, B. (2023). A matter of perspective: A case study in the use of AI-generative art in the drawing classroom. The International Journal of New Media, Technology and the Arts, 18(1), 17-31.
Bamford, A. (2023). How are university design courses adapting to incorporate AI? Design Week (Online Edition), 2.
Holmes, W., & Tuomi, I. (2022). State of the art and practice in AI in education. European Journal of Education, 57(4), 542-570.
Cal Tech - Resources for Teaching in the Age of AI (2023). How to prepare students to work in a world fundamentally altered by these tools.
Leibowicz, C., Saltz, E., & Coleman, L. (2021). Creating AI Art Responsibly: A Field Guide for Artists. Diseña, (19), Article.5.
Leonard, N. (2020). Entanglement Art Education: Factoring ARTificial Intelligence and Nonhumans Into Future Art Curricula. Art Education, 73(4), 22–28.

Copyright Status

US Judge Rules AI-Generated Art
Not Protected by Copyright Law ArtNews (2023, Aug 21).

Artificial intelligence and copyright law: Less than meets the eye. (2023, Aug 31). Mondaq Business Briefing.
Valente, C. J. (2023, June). Recent trends in generative artificial intelligence litigation in the United States. Mondaq Business Briefing.
Indiana University: Ask the Expert - What Are Legal Issues Surrounding AI, Its Impact on the Arts? (2023, Jul 13). Targeted News Service (online).

InfoGraphic

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Source:
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(2019)

Additional Readings

Frank, S. J., & Frank, A. M. (2022). Complementing connoisseurship with artificial intelligence. Curator (New York, N.Y.), 65(4), 835-868.
Wojciechowski, A., & Korjonen‐Kuusipuro, K. (2021). Can artificial intelligence become an artist? Human Technology, 17(2), 118.
Matthews, B., Shannon, B., & Roxburgh, M. (2023). Destroy all humans: The dematerialisation of the designer in an age of automation and its impact on graphic Design—A literature review. The International Journal of Art & Design Education, 42(3), 367-383.
Hakopian, M. F. (2023). Art histories from nowhere: On the coloniality of experiments in art and artificial intelligence. AI & Society.

Videos

AI Art: How artists are using and confronting machine learning: How to See Like a Machine. The Museum of Modern Art·(2023) Streaming Video Available Online (14min 56sec)
North, C. (2023). Build a DALL-E image generator using react, JavaScript, and OpenAI. Packt Publishing. Streaming Video Available Online (5 min 45 sec)
PBS news weekend. Hick, D. H., Yang, J. Educators worry about students using artificial intelligence to cheat, NewsHour Productions and WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.) (2023). Streaming Video Available Online (6 min 3 sec)
Theobald, O. (2023). Generative AI art for beginners. Packt Publishing. Streaming Video Available Online (1h 9m)

Adaptation

The AI Laocoön: Art and the Artificial Imagination, or Survival Aesthetics in the Anthropocene Leonardo (Oxford) (2023).
Reimagining fine art in the artificial intelligence era new student-run gallery show at GSU puts the 'AI' in painting. States ,News Service, Gale. (2023).
How schools can survive (and maybe even thrive) with A.I. this fall: The shift. New York Times (2023).
Art and the Science of Generative AI MIT (2023).
A Dare for Art Students: 'Embrace the Machines'. New York Times (2023).

Prompts

Prompt Engineering
AI prompts serve as guiding instructions that influence the behavior and output of AI models. - Linkedin.com
Generative AI Is Only as Good as the Prompt You Give It
- UPCA (Nov, 2022)
How AI Generates Images from Text
Scientific American, vol. 329, no. 3, Oct. 2023, pp. 66–67.

AI & Ethics

AI for Arts
Call Number: N72.T4 H34 2022
Publication Date: 2021-08-25
AI Ethics and Governance
Call Number: Q334.7 .L58 2022
Publication Date: 2022-05-21
The AI Dilemma
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2023-08-15

Spotting AI

How to Tell If a Photo Is an AI-Generated Fake
We need AI to catch them. -Scientific American (Mar, 2023)

AI Status Overview

Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2023 - Stanford University
Summary of current data and info related to artificial intelligence.

AI Aesthetics

The emergence of autolography: The 'magical' invocation of images from text through AI. Media International Australia Incorporating Culture & Policy. (2023)
Deep else: A critical framework for AI art. Digital, 2(1), 1. (2022)
A study of artificial intelligence-based poster layout design in visual communication. Scientific Programming, (2022).
Humans versus AI: Whether and why we prefer human-created compared to AI-created artwork. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8(1), 42-42. (2023).
Understanding and creating art with AI: Review and outlook. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, 18(2), 1-22. (2022).
Grand theft AI. Art in America, 111(3), 108. (2023).
Communication in human-AI co-creation: Perceptual analysis of paintings generated by text-to-image system. Applied Sciences, 12(22), 11312. (2022).

AI Art for Sale - Various Example Websites

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Art & Artificial Intelligence: Home

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”

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