OpenAI announced Friday a partnership with a New York City art gallery to provide artists with unpublished work AI tool.
The exhibition, part of a series called “Strada Nuova: New Roads,” will run for three weeks at the Strada Gallery and centers on “a diverse group of artists, led by outstanding researchers, academics and creative made up of people working in the real world.” and digital artwork,” said Strada founder Paul Hill.
Hill told CNBC that he contacted OpenAI to recommend the project. Talks began about six months ago, and the plan was developed with OpenAI to provide artists with access to tools including its Sora video generatorits Voice Engine speech generator, DALL-E 3 image generator and ChatGPT, its viral chatbot, as well as educational resources and artist stipends.
Minne Atairu is an interdisciplinary artist who has been focusing on using artificial intelligence in art for the past four years (even before the launch of ChatGPT), using 2D and 3D image generation as well as video generation in her artwork. Highlighting “understudied gaps” in Black history archives. For the exhibition, she said, she used Sora to create an AI-generated video, “Regina Gloriana,” inspired by supernatural horror films produced in Nigeria in the 1990s.
The use of artificial intelligence in its many forms in art is part of a wider debate that has generated a host of controversy and a growing number of lawsuits over alleged copyright infringement and training data.
Anthropic selection, Amazon-Supported artificial intelligence startups, which have taken a hit recently class action lawsuit Three authors filed a lawsuit in federal court in California over alleged copyright infringement. Last year, a group that included Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George RR Martin and Jodi Picoult batch of famous American writers, Sue OpenAI They are suspected of copyright infringement by using their works to train ChatGPT. Last January, a artist group A class action lawsuit has been filed against Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt, alleging copyright infringement by their artificial intelligence image generation tools.
When asked about the use of artificial intelligence in art, Strada’s Hill told CNBC, “I think on a controversial level, all good art is controversial. I’ve never seen that Good works of art are not without controversy.”
Hill added that across different industries, he sees the development of artificial intelligence as an industrial revolution of sorts.
“Historically, the last communities and networks to gain access to these tools are often Black people,” Hill said. He added, “In the next industrial revolution, we can be like the pioneers and ensure that marginalized communities don’t become marginalized. cultural community.” Six of the artists in this exhibition are black; one is from Kyoto, Japan. “
Some of Hill’s artists expressed the view of not being left behind when it comes to their use of artificial intelligence tools or representation therein.
Curry Hackett, an interdisciplinary designer and public artist, told CNBC that he uses artificial intelligence to rethink how images are created and captured. His exhibition project builds on one of his public art projects, Ugly Beauty, in which he used Midjourney to manually collage images together to form a 50-foot-long installation that hangs in a Brooklyn plaza. The scene, “speculates on the relationship of black people to black nature and plants,” he said. In the Strada exhibition, where the same works hang in the gallery, Hackett used Sora to animate static canvas scenes.
“I realize there are environmental issues, political issues, ethical issues, but I also think it makes real sense to open up avenues for creating creative media,” Hackett said of artificial intelligence. “As a Black artist, our media forms don’t appear in these models. So it makes sense that privileged groups should actually be actively using these tools in imaginative ways.”
Hackett also said, “However, I can definitely understand a lot of the concerns that many people in the creative field are feeling right now, because there are concerns about models being trained on data without consent…I think we are now Specifications and best practices need to be developed so that people can actually use these tools easily.
Sophia Wilson is a photographer and visual artist who works primarily with film photography hand-printed in a color darkroom. She told CNBC she’s already skilled in Photoshop and other retouching software, which is how she feels about AI tools like Sora.
“Nothing is perfect, everything has flaws, but if I can use it to my advantage as an artist… I see it more as a retouching tool or an editing tool that can enhance my work, Rather than this being something I should be afraid of because I just don’t want to be one of those people that history forgets,” Wilson said.
For the Strada exhibition, Wilson documented black female bodybuilders in New York and used Sora to animate some still images, such as a chandelier moving in the wind. She also used OpenAI’s speech engine to read interview transcripts from some subjects.
“Artificial intelligence is reading the story as an accompaniment to the audio portion,” Wilson said. “It puts everyone on a level playing field. Black women get judged a lot for their voices and different intonations — women in general and black women in particular… I hope it comes from a unified voice that you can “Don’t judge people by the sound of their voices. “
