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Art Without an Artist:

Can We Keep the Soul in Art

Amid the AI Boom?

Have you ever imagined creating stunning however, a shift has occurred. Audiences
images with the click of a button? During are showing signs of fatigue with perfectly
the AI boom of the 2020s, text-to-image polished AI images, sparking a backlash
models such as Midjourney, DALL-E, and driving an increasing demand for
and Stable Diffusion became widely more authentic, imperfect human-made
available to the public, allowing users art.
to generate vivid imagery in seconds
a n d w it h litt le ef for t. Whi le e arly Take a look at the two artworks below:
commentary focused heavily on copyright one was generated by AI, while the other
issues, defamation, and the threat of was created by the hands of a human
t e c hn o log ic a l un em p lo y m en t f o r artist. Can you tell the difference at first
traditional artists, proponents argued glance? Does one carry more life and
that AI offered an effective way to devotion than the other, or is that irrelevant
brainstorm and experiment. Recently, if the end result is all that matters?

An AI-generated artwork An artwork by Toviah, a six-year-old