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The ethical line is drawn firmly at the Ultimately, Ms Kwok suggests that any
final public output. Ms Kwok is adamant future for this medium in competitions
about protecting artistic identity, stating, must rely on strict ethical frameworks
“I will not reproduce an art with an that prevent direct reproduction. She
existing style or signature style,” viewing argues that judges would need to shift
the intentiona l cloning of another’s their evaluation criteria to, she asserted,
“vibe” as a major breach of professional “focus more on the storytelling part of
et hics. This concern extends to t he the artwork, but not just on how the
very foundation of the technology: the artwork looks,” ensuring that human
use of non-consensual training data. intent remains the primary metric of
Ms Kwok admits she would feel, as she value. For Ms Kwok, the preservation of
declared, “pretty disgusted” if her own the creative process is paramount; she
labour-intensive works were instantly notes that if the technology ever fully
mimicked by a model, arguing that such automates the field, she would not follow
copies are inherently hollow because a career path in the art industry but she
AI generated art, as she proclaimed, will never stop creating for the intrinsic
meaning of the process itself.
lost the meaning, lost the story.
W it hout t he hu m a n na r r at ive a nd
time-intensive process behind it, the
work becomes a shallow imitation.
Ms Kwok’s life in Stockholm, Sweden
Lying Beyond the Machine:
A New Creative Era
So where does the creative industr y
go from here? The answer is not to resist
AI, but to redefine what it means to be
Ms Kwok takes pictures of the snowy
scenery — enjoying the breathtaking art an artist or designer in an AI-augmented
from nature world. As Ms Kwok’s experience shows,
