In Isaac Asimov’s book titled I, Robot, the issue of whether robots can dream and create works of art was discussed in a short chapter. Some artificial intelligence that has emerged recently has brought these discussions back to the agenda by producing very impressive visuals.
Images produced using artificial intelligence such as DALL-E and Midjourney began to find a place for themselves on popular stock image platforms. It was seen that these images were exhibited with tags such as AI generated or midjourney. This, of course, brought some controversy.
Creating visuals with artificial intelligence: Literature or visual arts?
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Some artists who want to earn income from images created by artificial intelligence have already started to fill image sales platforms such as Shutterstock with artificial intelligence products. Because at the moment, Shutterstock’s terms of use do not prevent the sale of images produced with artificial intelligence.
Shutterstock creators earn license fees from the platform, ranging from 15% to 40%. Depending on the different membership packages, the price of the photos can start from 64 cents and go up to 9.5 dollars. Some of these works are as follows:
a futuristic city
baby phoenix
surrealist backgrounds
a surfer
A robot factory
Of course, this situation brings with it ethical discussions. Some artist communities oppose AI-generated images. This is because artificial intelligence can easily produce an almost unlimited amount of content. On the other hand, another group of artists embraces new technologies and aims to expand their perception of art in different fields.
On the other hand, the fact that artificial intelligence works are included in stock image sales sites creates an interesting situation. Because artificial intelligence also makes significant use of these visuals to learn. In the future, if such images increase, we will often see the works of artificial intelligence based on its own works.
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