Ethical Implications of AI-Generated Art
respects? Is not the more condemnable path that we might cease to improve the quality of life for future generations?
4.2. Does artificial intelligence devalue artwork? A less common, though nonetheless concerning, worry expressed by professional artists is that using artificial intelligence to generate artworks will devalue art. “Devalue” here is, as far as I can tell, applicable in two different contexts. The first is a monetary context: AI-generated works will flood the market with cheaper alternatives, causing artists to lose job prospects, relating back to the previous objection, “Artificial intelligence takes jobs?” Indeed, it does. Indeed, it will. However, the second context is an artistic one. The proposition is that artificial intelligence will cause artwork to lose its artistic value. Yet, in a study conducted by Joo-Wha Hong and Nathaniel Ming Curran, participants concluded that artwork created by artificial intelligence did not hold equivalent artistic value as those made with traditional tools by human hands. Indeed, the AI-generated art was believed to hold less overall artistic value. As written in the article, “The result from the equivalence test was non- significant… Hypothesis 2, which stated that AI-created artwork and human- created artwork are equivalent in artistic value, was not supported. The results indicate that human-created artworks had higher evaluation scores compared to AI- created artworks in both circumstances in which participants were told that attributed artworks are created by AI artists and human artists.” 21 In conducting this study, the authors outlined several variables that would determine artistic value. These were originality, degree of improvement or growth, composition, development of personal style, degree of expression, experimentation and risk-taking, aesthetic value, and successful communication of ideas. “Only the variable ‘Development of Personal Style’ showed a significant difference in answers
21 Joo-Wha Hong and Nathaniel Ming Curran, “Artificial Intelligence, Artists, and Art,” ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications 15, no. 2s (April 30, 2019): 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1145/3326337.
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