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AI-Robot – Self Portrait (AI version)
Put simply, an AI is just a programmed algorithm that performs certain tasks. An AI has no consciousness of its own and shows no understanding. The question of the relationship between AI and creativity is actually utopian. Nevertheless, I have dealt with this question artistically.
Once it has learned the painting styles of the “great masters”, an AI-based computer system can reproduce any image given to it in the painting style of a particular artist. You can also tell the system what you want to see in a picture and then have it reproduce it in the painting style of a particular artist. The AI system is also able to develop a new style by mixing different learned painting styles, but this is always based on the learned painting styles. However, the AI system itself cannot develop its “own signature”, a new style that has never been seen before or a new picture idea (as of 2023).
From the series “AI-Robot – Artificial Intelligence”
The increasing use of artificial intelligence offers a wide range of potential – but at the same time it also arouses fears and has a sinister effect on some people. The “AI-Robot – Artificial Intelligence” series explores selected aspects of this area of tension through art.
First, the motifs were photographed 8 to 13 times each with the analog Klimsch Praktika repro camera. The exposure was made on 50×60 cm, special black and white positive photo paper – without the detour via a negative – with subsequent manual development in the photo laboratory. By exposing directly onto the photographic paper, each photograph is unique within a small edition.
In the second step, the identical image themes were created again – this time with software support from an AI. The subject of close examination and in-depth evaluation here is how such an AI, in comparison to analog photography, implements the individual themes pictorially.
