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Start Date
17-9-2024 2:15 PM
End Date
17-9-2024 3:00 PM
Keywords
art, images artificial intelligence
Description
Artificial Intelligence (AI) art isn’t harmless. With AI as a mechanism for creation, numerous people and institutions have urged caution in the generation of articles, papers or sermons. Yet, when it comes to images, many have readily accepted the use of AI. Art that has been created by AI is treated as a harmless way to craft images that suit the design of the user in an expedient way with little mastery or time. As an image generator, AI may appear to produce novel images, but these works are formulated from the styles and creativity of actual artists. AI art plagiarizes styles from human creators and circumvents opportunities to interact with human expressions of the transcendent and warrants a high degree of caution. This sectional examines the risks of AI art considering Makoto Fujimura’s assertion that humans are fundamentally “co-creators” with God. Taken alongside the work of George Steiner who argues every piece of art from images to music, is a wager on the transcendent, one can see how art is necessarily a human endeavor. Human creators produce works reflecting God’s creation highlighting unique aspects of the transcendent. Works crafted by artists within a community communicate a message wrought through time and toil. Utilizing the Isenheim Altarpiece crafted by Nikolaus of Haguenau and Matthias Grünewald, this presentation will show how art formulated by human hands in their role as co-creators is a necessary expression of the transcendent while exhibiting the potential perils of AI art.
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Submission Cost
Free
The Peril of AI Art
Artificial Intelligence (AI) art isn’t harmless. With AI as a mechanism for creation, numerous people and institutions have urged caution in the generation of articles, papers or sermons. Yet, when it comes to images, many have readily accepted the use of AI. Art that has been created by AI is treated as a harmless way to craft images that suit the design of the user in an expedient way with little mastery or time. As an image generator, AI may appear to produce novel images, but these works are formulated from the styles and creativity of actual artists. AI art plagiarizes styles from human creators and circumvents opportunities to interact with human expressions of the transcendent and warrants a high degree of caution. This sectional examines the risks of AI art considering Makoto Fujimura’s assertion that humans are fundamentally “co-creators” with God. Taken alongside the work of George Steiner who argues every piece of art from images to music, is a wager on the transcendent, one can see how art is necessarily a human endeavor. Human creators produce works reflecting God’s creation highlighting unique aspects of the transcendent. Works crafted by artists within a community communicate a message wrought through time and toil. Utilizing the Isenheim Altarpiece crafted by Nikolaus of Haguenau and Matthias Grünewald, this presentation will show how art formulated by human hands in their role as co-creators is a necessary expression of the transcendent while exhibiting the potential perils of AI art.
