*Lovato, J., J. W. Zimmerman, I. Smith, P. Dodds, and J. L. Karson. “Foregrounding Artist
Opinions: A Survey Study on Transparency, Ownership, and Fairness in AI Generative
Art”. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, vol. 7, no. 1, Oct.
2024, pp. 905-16, doi:10.1609/aies.v7i1.31691.
This article discusses how 495 artists were surveyed on their opinions about AI-
generative art and how this may be a threat towards the art community. AI tools were meant to
be used to create or assist in the creative process. This could be a great potential towards the
future for artists, but AI can bring great harm. The study was meant for people to be able to
understand artists why they think it is a threat to the art community and how we could prevent
the harm from happening. They disclosed the facts that AI art broke the copyrights of original
artists by using their work and breaking ethical fairness. About 80% of the answers of the survey
indicate that AI should share heavily on how they gained their “creativeness” and how they were
trained. 50% of the artists stated, “I don’t need to profit, but I don’t want for-profit companies to
profit from my art. “I think it is important to understand that most people do not want to sell their
art to just anyone and they have the right to decide. Their right to decide was taken and their art
was stolen. Some people did not even know. Reading about the survey is important for my
research. It can be hard to understand people’s different perspectives on the issues related to AI,
but people should try to understand. That is why I chose this article for my research. Artists are
questioning the relationship practices between humans and machines. “How might this tech-
nology distract me? Is the machine using me, or am I using it? Is this image-making or
artmaking? How does this assisted automation serve my artistic intentions and practice?”
(Karson). These quoted questions are some questions artists have generally asked themselves. I
think the quote “is this machine using me or am I using it” is the powerful question. We want to
use AI as tools not as them completely stealing your creative process and credit. Although AI
seems mostly on the harmful side of the to controversy, there is room for improvement and can
be a positive addition simply by using it differently, rather than using it as artists eyes we can
have an “enhance agency”.
Leibowicz, C., E. Saltz, and L. Coleman. “Creating AI Art Responsibly: A Field Guide for
Artists”. Diseña, no. 19, Sept. 2021, p. Article.5, doi:10.7764/disena.19.Article.5.
Machine learning tools can be used negatively and misleadingly. The article’s purpose is
to explain how to use those tools in a responsible way and a careful manner. Leibowicz and
Coleman emphasize the importance of knowing how to use the tools for the artists and designers
out there in the career field. There are many ways to not let AI take over that creative part; for
example, Naoko Hara uses images drawn from her own animation work as data to generate art
(Hara, 2020). That is a way to use the tools in a nonnegative way. Recently, there was a person
who used AI to prove technology’s effects on society. In 2019, Bill Posters and Daniel Howe’s
installation ‘Spectreʼ featured a fake video of Mark Zuckerberg to illuminate his Facebook’s