Is there a ‘right’ way to use AI in art?
The arguments against AI in art are obvious. Most visual artists hate Midjourney, Stability AI, and similar image generators, decrying thescraping of training data without compensationand the onslaught of generic aslop.a But is it possible to deliberately misuse generative AI for creative work?
Oakland, California-based painter BrettAmoryuses image generators as tools constantly. Instead of passively churning out generic images in large volumes a what he himself has referred to as addictive and mind-numbing afast arta aAmory focuses on worldbuilding and glitching the machine. Hedraws inspiration from his day job at a San Francisco Kinko's in the late a90s, long before he broke through as an award-winning painter, when he would place garbage and plants into the photocopiers to make collages. Now, heas prompting an LLM to roleplay in an invented language, inciting a visual feedback loop between generative images and human intervention.
Amory focuses on worldbuilding and glitching the machine
aWe're in a very weird moment for artists right now when it's just not clear what kind of moral goal posts there are around AI art,a says Brooklyn-based art criti …