Artificial Intelligence
Press officers move over: Gagosian employs ChatGPT to announce new exhibition
The US artist Alex Israel is embracing the ChatGPT revolution in a big way. Israel’s new exhibition Fins opens at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome, featuring a “collection of giant, plastic, coloured surfboard Fin sculptures (from 12 May)… crafted with meticulous attention to detail, resulting in a collection of works that are both playful and strikingly beautiful”, according to the florid press release, which comes with the heading, “Generated by ChatGPT.
The move highlights how the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is encroaching across the art world; the press statement sounds like any other communications missive apart from the odd hyperbolic statement including: “This is an opportunity not to be missed.” We asked Israel to respond, posing questions around the relationship between artists and the media and whether documents created by artificial intelligence are just as lucid and informative as those produced by human hand. Israel decided to use ChatGPT (again) to answer; his AI-generated response is below:
The creative industries are fighting back against UK government proposals to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission.
The latest protest is a silent album co-written by more than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, and follows a statement signed by 48,000 creatives including Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus in which they warned of a “major, unjust threat” to artists’ livelihoods.
Artificial Intelligence
Kate Bush, New Order, & Damon Albarn Among 1,000 UK Artists Protesting Government’s AI Stance With A Silent Album
Last week, the UK government proposed a new policy that would allow tech companies to use copyrighted works to train their artificial intelligence algorithms. Under the proposal, artists and companies could opt out of having their material used for AI, but it would otherwise give the companies unfettered access to people’s creative work without having to license anything. The proposal has incited widespread anger in the UK’s arts communities, and now a team of 1,000 British musicians has released a silent protest album called Is This What We Want?
Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms.
In a joint statement, bodies representing thousands of creatives dismissed the proposal made by ministers on Tuesday that would allow companies such as Open AI, Google and Meta to train their AI systems on published works unless their owners actively opt out.
