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 AI, Artists, and Technology
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An image generated from one of my landscape photos using Stable Diffusion with img2img to make it look more like an oil painting. It shows yellow flowers, with a forest behind them. The Jura Mountains loom behind the forest, and the sky is bright blue with some large white clouds.

The open-source release of Stable Diffusion has sparked an explosion of progress in AI-generated art. Although it is in its infancy, I can already tell this new tool is going to revolutionize visual art creation. But not everyone views AI art in a positive light. Many artists feel that AI art stole their work1 and have organized protests on popular sites like ArtStation. Other artists claim that AI-generated art can’t be art2 because it isn’t human.
AI and Photography as Art

I come down on the side of AI-artists.

This is probably unsurprising because I am a machine learning engineer, it is my job to build the types of systems these artists are using. But what is less obvious is that my support is also because I am an artist, specifically a landscape photographer.

Photography—just like AI-generated art—has a complicated history as “art”. Although the first photograph was taken in 1826, it wasn’t until 1924 that an American museum recognized the medium as art by including photographs in its permanent collection. At first artists feared photography would replace traditional visual arts due to the ease of taking a picture. But eventual