Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines like computers. Applications of AI include expert systems, natural language processing, speech recognition, and machine vision. AI artwork like Daniela Martelanz's portrait above (dm_ai_art on Instagram) is artwork created through the use of AI. AI art uses text-to-image systems, image diffusion models like DALLE-2, Imagen, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney - AI tools and applications using 'traditional' photoshop sometimes as well. Art-generated AIs are trained on datasets of millions of images taken from the Internet, including ones that are copyrighted or watermarked. AI art algorithms only ever generate images based on the data they have been trained on. AI programs reproduce images they have seen before.
AI art is post the digital retouching usually found in beauty (makeup) shots and fashion magazine photography. AI art is an evolutionary art presenting entirely new media using 21st Century tools and applications. The incredible artifice and realism in AI art originates in its technology and its idealising effects, the human ideal, a new classical aesthetic - symmetry, balance, perfection.
Exerting the influential power of art, online artists like Daniela Martelanz and Arturo Arvizu (arvizu_art on Instagram - he describes himself as a "Painter") generate and amplify idealised, perfected realism in art that is artificial. The echo of the sound of our response to AI art has yet to be received...
Alienation used to diagnose the condition of a population becoming foreign to itself, offering a prognosis that promised recovery. All of that is over. We are all foreigners now. No longer alienated, but alien...DC
