Tag Archives: AI art

Procreate defies AI trend, pledges “no generative AI” in its illustration app

Enlarge / Still of Procreate CEO James Cuda from a video posted to X. reader comments 187 On Sunday, Procreate announced that it will not incorporate generative AI into its popular iPad illustration app. The decision comes in response to an ongoing backlash from some parts of the art community, which has raised concerns about… Read More »

Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, 200 artists say AI poses existential threat to their livelihoods

Enlarge / Billie Eilish attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California. reader comments 82 On Tuesday, the Artist Rights Alliance (ARA) announced an open letter critical of AI signed by over 200 musical artists,… Read More »

How much detail is too much? Midjourney v6 attempts to find out

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “Beautiful queen of the universe looking at the camera in sci-fi armor, snow and particles flowing, fire in the background” created using alpha Midjourney v6. Midjourney reader comments 91 In December, just before Christmas, Midjourney launched an alpha version of its latest image synthesis model, Midjourney v6. Over… Read More »

From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us

Enlarge / A composite of three DALL-E 3 AI art generations: an oil painting of Hercules fighting a shark, a photo of the queen of the universe, and a marketing photo of “Marshmallow Menace” cereal. DALL-E 3 / Benj Edwards reader comments 133 with In October, OpenAI launched its newest AI image generator—DALL-E 3—into wide… Read More »

University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade

reader comments 20 with On Friday, a team of researchers at the University of Chicago released a research paper outlining “Nightshade,” a data poisoning technique aimed at disrupting the training process for AI models, reports MIT Technology Review and VentureBeat. The goal is to help visual artists and publishers protect their work from being used… Read More »

US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art

Enlarge / The winning entry, Théåtre D’opéra Spatial, from the Colorado State Fair in August 2022. Jason Allen reader comments 51 with On Tuesday, the US Copyright Office Review Board rejected copyright protection for an AI-generated artwork that won a Colorado State Fair art contest last year because it lacks human authorship required for registration,… Read More »

Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an anime-style woman that also functions as a working QR code. If you have trouble reading it, try positioning your camera farther away from the image. reader comments 45 with On Tuesday, a Reddit user named “nhciao” posted a series of artistic QR codes created using the Stable Diffusion… Read More »

AI-expanded album cover artworks go viral thanks to Photoshop’s Generative Fill

Enlarge / An AI-expanded version of a famous album cover involving four lads and a certain road created using Adobe Generative Fill. reader comments 32 with Over the weekend, AI-powered makeovers of famous music album covers went viral on Twitter thanks to Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Fill, an image synthesis tool that debuted in a beta… Read More »

Artists astound with AI-generated film stills from a parallel universe

Enlarge / An AI-generated image from an #aicinema still series called “Vinyl Vengeance” by Julie Wieland, created using Midjourney. reader comments 48 with Share this story Since last year, a group of artists have been using an AI image generator called Midjourney to create still photos of films that don’t exist. They call the trend… Read More »

AI imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images—and 5-fingered hands

Enlarge / An example of lighting and skin effects in the AI image generator Midjourney v5. reader comments 140 with Share this story On Wednesday, Midjourney announced version 5 of its commercial AI image synthesis service, which can produce photorealistic images at a quality level that some AI art fans are calling creepy and “too… Read More »