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| Example of AI-generated art | 

The prompt used to make this image was “3 sisters in the 1870s.” The dresses look extremely unrealistic, and certainly wouldn't be worn in the 1870s.  AI often has trouble making bodies look proportional. In this image, the women’s faces are blurry, and the one on the right’s arm looks attached to her dress. The hands, however, are a giveaway. Most AI images never make hands look correct; they’re either blurred or have extra fingers.

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Video Animation

Animated by our friend Billie McCarter!

Our Takeaways from Service Learning

Aconite: The first time I ever laid eyes upon AI art programs was about half a decade ago, my friends were invested in this site they found online that could generate poorly made images for them of any situation they could conjure up. The first prompt we put in was of two characters from a show we all liked playing basketball together, dunking the ball over the other. I don't know, that's just what our humor was at the time. That was in 2019/2020, and the image was barely clear enough to determine what was happening.

We are now approaching 2025, and AI programs have been climbing up the ladder to supersede real artists, musicians, writers, photographers, social media stars, and voice actors! Creative industries are in serious jeopardy and when going into the Service Learning class, I was completely weary of the threat posed by Artificial Intelligence on creative industries. Throughout my time in this class, AI has continued to develop and become more intelligent. The average person, and even art and AI prodigies, are frequently tricked by AI artists into believing their work is a true piece of art, or even worse, getting tricked by AI propaganda.

We've seen this recently in politics, people utilizing AI to defame another celebrity or politician to make them appear to be supporting a cause they may not support, or AI could be used to make the victim appear problematic. AI can be used to make it seem like real people are spouting problematic/offensive language to defame them, and since AI is only getting more and more intelligent and powerful, it can make more accurate and realistic videos that can be used as false propaganda. 

The majority of people only know that AI is bad because it's superseding artists and that it's used for defamation, but many people don't know that AI art is actually a form of plagiarism. AI learns how to create artwork through databases of art that the AI pulls information from, some of this is AI art, and some is real art. However, the AIs that create these databases will put real human artwork into these databases without the artist's permission. Furthermore, on music sites, YouTuber Anthony Fantano pointed out how Udio also uses databases, and how to trick the AI into creating exact replicas of instrumental beats produced by artists within Udio's databases.

AI needs to be met at a middle ground. Artificial Intelligence is not 100% good and not 100% bad, but AI art falls under the category of bad uses for AI. Companies have already begun to fire real animators and employees and replace them with AI, movies are already being made using mostly AI, and companies like Lionsgate are hiring people to make AI assets for their future films. As AI continues to replace and supersede artists and creative workers, AI will only get more and more intelligent, but what AI will never do is capture the same creativity and weirdness that real Artists put onto their paper, and I don't use weirdness negatively. Artists will need to get more abstract to differentiate their work from AI because although AI art is technically advanced,  AI art really lacks any personality or creativity that a real human can put onto a piece of paper. I would like everyone reading this page to watch this six-and-a-half-minute video from an AI researcher about his complaints about AI art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itqgYFIzo8s

Luna: When I joined Aconite to work on this project, I didn't understand how dangerous AI really was. To be honest, the main reason I joined him was because I didn't want to work by myself. But once we got started, I realized how much this cause actually meant to me. AI art is everywhere; Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, etc. And it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between fake art and real art. Though I'm not an artist myself, I have many friends who are, and it is harder for them to share or sell their art now.

In my sophomore year, I started using an AI art website, Night Cafe, to generate images, since I was frustrated that I couldn't draw. But after a while I realized that it was better to be a bad artist than a phony artist. My creating AI images was actively harming artists and I didn't even realize it. Now that Aconite and I have done research on how dangerous AI truly is, I have denounced Night Cafe and no longer generate fake art.

In addition to stealing money from real artists, AI also steals jobs from screenwriters, singers, and many other people who work in the Arts. This month Coca-Cola made an entire commercial with AI! We were shocked and disgusted that a billion-dollar company would replace talented animators with cheap and lazy AI slop - and then have the shame to air it on live TV! Additionally, AI is also used by students to plagiarize essays and other work in school. While AI can be used for positive things, taking away jobs is not one of them. We hope that our project can educate people about the danger of AI and its theft of art.