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Accelerating or Abating:

The Impact of

AI on Art

What’s real and what’s not? As Artificial vulnerability. If software can generate
Intelligence (AI) reshapes the creative intricate visuals and meet market demands
industry, the line between human-made in mere seconds, it raises a critical question
and AI-generated works has gradually for the future of traditional artistry: are
blurred. This digita l ambiguit y was human artists and designers still required
recently illustrated in a viral experiment when a much more efficient tool can
by an anonymous conceptual artist who mimic their genius?
posted a cropped image of a real 1915 A Designer’s Journey:
Claude Monet painting on X, falsely
claiming that it was an AI-generated A Foundation of Originality
fa ke. The post unleashed a f lood of To understand how the next generation
c r i t i c i s m f r o m u s e r s w h o q u i c k l y of creators is navigating this digital
dismissed the genuine masterpiece as evolution, we sat down with Ms Zoe Kwok,
“incoherent” and “obvious AI slop”. As a designer whose journey ref lects a
technology gains the ability to simulate deep-rooted commitment to original
styles that once took a lifetime to master, vision. Ms Kwok, previously a St. Marian,
the creative industry faces unprecedented
holds a unique perspective shaped by
both her early artistic beginnings in
Hong Kong and her current international
experience in Sweden.

Ms Kwok’s passion began as a student
at SMCC, creating art while creating
promotional material for different clubs,
such as the Chinese Debate Club and
the Red House, and working as a Designer
for the School Drama. Recalling her
fruitful teenagehood at SMCC, Ms Kwok
The blurred lines of the digital age: Claude reminisces, “I rea l ly t hin k t hat it’s
Monet’s Water Lilies (c.1915), which became amazing that for Form 5 students, we
the center of a viral online experiment
exposing our growing collective paranoia could have the freedom, we could have
over AI-generated art. the chance to create the stage (and) to