‘Copying is part of the process’: NFN Kalyan on AI and art

‘Copying is part of the process’: NFN Kalyan on AI and art

“AI in art represents a democratisation of process,” says No-First-Name Kalyan, a Miami-based artist. Besides investigating NFTs, he has recently started creating on Midjourney, and his AI experiments — especially a sci-fi ‘History of India’ series, where he envisions what would have happened to India if it had been occupied by aliens rather than the […]

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Navigating the legalities of AI and art

Navigating the legalities of AI and art

An AI work from Ayaz Basrai’s ‘Solar Punk Cities’ series When AI-generated ‘avatars’ from Lensa AI populated our feeds in the last couple of weeks, many were pleasantly surprised at how flattering the app had made them look, enhancing their best side profiles, with low-angle shots set to the backdrops of spaceships and gardens. Then […]

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Artist uses AI-generated art to win in competition, and Twitter isn’t happy

Artist uses AI-generated art to win in competition, and Twitter isn’t happy

Jason Allen, president of Colorado-based tabletop gaming company Incarnate Games recently won first place at a digital art competition, but artists on Twitter are not happy about it. This is because the art piece that won the first place prize was actually generated using AI (artificial intelligence). As per a report by Vice, the incident […]

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AI art tool Midjourney has all the answers to ‘what if’

AI art tool Midjourney has all the answers to ‘what if’

Inspired by the recently released images of the universe by NASA, the first prompt I fed into the Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool of research lab Midjourney was “a spaceship surrounded by galaxies”. The result, as pictured below, was an image of a vessel suspended in space that seems to reflect the cosmos around it – […]

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