Artists Share AI Experiences And Anxieties In New Video Essay: ‘AI Vs Artists The Biggest Art Heist In History’

Martin Perhiniak, certified Adobe design master and instructor, has posted a new video that ponders the many legal and ethical questions around generative AI models.

The video, AI vs Artists—The Biggest Art Heist in History, features clips of dozens of artists discussing how AI has already affected them and their anxieties about the tech’s future. It’s description reads:

Generative AI can be called many things depending on your point of view: machine, thief, tool, medium, collaborator, muse and even artist. In this video I will try to find answers for a lot of complex things and I will attempt to judge this technology with an open mind. In the last couple of weeks I spoke to many amazing artists and scientists about my mixed feelings of generative AI. Join me to hear their thoughts, my advice to creators and predictions on what’s to come.

The full video is available above, but we’ve picked out a few talking points that …