How AI art benefits from a human touch

Instead of AI threatening creativity and originality, artists have the power to examine its implicit biases and steer its direction.

Our reception of AI (artificial intelligence) art right now is, at best, complicated.

‘My initial interest was that I could use the tool to analyse and predict what my next painting should be, based on my previous work,’ says Leach.

Rosenbaum says: ‘I think AI and projects like this can hold a mirror to how we perceive gender. We’re in the nascent stages of our understanding of AI and our understanding of gender is also evolving. So we can actually use that evolution to reflect those things back at each other to consider how we present gender, and what are we teaching our AI and why.’

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_