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The folly of making art with text-to-image generative AI

  • Written by Ahmed Elgammal, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
The folly of making art with text-to-image generative AIObtaining a desired image can be a long exercise in trial and error.OpenAI

Making art using artificial intelligence isn’t new. It’s as old as AI itself.

What’s new is that a wave of tools now let most people generate images by entering a text prompt. All you need to do is write “a landscape in the style of van Gogh”...

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