Artist Brett Amory has used AI in his work but found the results underwhelming until he started using AI to worldbuild and glitch the models.
Amory now prompts LLMs to describe images in an invented language, which he then uses to generate further images, creating an ongoing cycle of feedback between machine and artist.
Brooklyn-based art critic Ben Davis says the negative attacks on AI by artists are understandable but that the technology is here to stay.
Davis believes that AI exacerbates the problem of cheapening the value of individual images within the industry.
Davis believes that copyright could protect artists who transform AI images significantly, but courts have not yet ruled on this.
He suggests that the way forward for AI artists is to move away from the artistic styles of the past and focus on constructing creative universes and audiences.