

Creating Art: Artwork made with artificial intelligence won a prize at the Colorado State Fair’s art competition - and set off fierce backlash about how art is generated.Now, the company plans to offer access to defense lawyers. Public Defenders: Clearview AI’s facial recognition software has been largely restricted to law enforcement.Users type a series of words in a message to Midjourney the bot spits back an image seconds later. This summer, he got invited to a Discord chat server where people were testing Midjourney, which uses a complex process known as “diffusion” to turn text into custom images. image generators would compare with the human artists whose works he commissioned. He runs a studio, Incarnate Games, which makes tabletop games, and he was curious how the new breed of A.I. Allen, 39, began experimenting with A.I.-generated art this year. These apps have made many human artists understandably nervous about their own futures - why would anyone pay for art, they wonder, when they could generate it themselves? They have also generated fierce debates about the ethics of A.I.-generated art, and opposition from people who claim that these apps are essentially a high-tech form of plagiarism. But tools released this year - with names like DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion - have made it possible for rank amateurs to create complex, abstract or photorealistic works simply by typing a few words into a text box. “I won, and I didn’t break any rules.”Ī.I.-generated art has been around for years. “I’m not going to apologize for it,” he said.
