Will AI change culture forever? It already has
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If AI can clone Kanye West and scoop a photography award, is it too late to be afraid? Baz Luhrmann, Rowan Williams and others weigh in.
By Tristram Fane Saunders
The June 1893 issue of The Studio, a London arts journal, was dedicated to an urgent debate: ‘Is the Camera the Friend or Foe of Art?’ If a machine can produce a beautiful, lifelike image at the touch of a button, does that devalue ‘real’ art? It’s the same question artists are asking today, 130 years later, about artificial intelligence.
In the past few months alone, AI has altered every sphere of the arts in ways so swift and subtle, so varied and widespread, that keeping track of it all has been almost impossible. It is already clear that the impact of AI – with its rapidly developing ability to generate images, sounds and words – will be the defining change in this decade’s cultural life. What is less certain is whether this change represents something to celebrate, or to fear.
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