This article immediately brings to mind an ongoing conversation I’ve been having with my fellow students and professor in my English class, "Writing in the Age of AI," regarding the ethics vs. utility of AI art. Aside from the ethics of using art created by another artist drawn from the internet, it feels like cheating to ask AI to generate an image and have it in seconds, when years ago it would take a painter or graphic designer hours or days to create the same image. In the context of glitch, we can create mind-bending images by simply knowing little tricks or hacks that, if you know how to do them, are as simple as changing a few numbers in code. This is where I have an issue with people having a problem with AI art. Yes, we did create glitches and an infinite loop without much strain and with a lot of help from the computer, but ask a student not in Digital Art 2 to do the same, and I doubt they would be able to. Instead of replacing artists, I see all this AI art, glitch art, and everything in that vein as a tool that we can harness as artists, exploring bigger and more extraordinary ideas of what is becoming possible to create.
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