People Want AI To Help Artists, Not Be The Artist

"Think of your favorite piece of arta painting, a song, a novel, a movie or even a video gameand try to remember why it made such a strong impression on you. Was it the color, the cadence of notes, the way the writer made you feel understood, the deep emotion of the actors? Now imagine that artificial intelligence created it. The question might seem flippant, yet this is the future toward which we are racing."

"Over the past few years, AI developers have improved the technology's ability to create art across nearly every field: not just writing, digital art, photos and videos but also three-dimensional models, dance choreography and architectural designs. With AI so rapidly learning to produce art forms previously considered the exclusive domain of human ingenuity, we thought it important to understand how people view this transformation."

"Earlier this year we conducted a survey on AI art using Prolific, an online platform that pays people to participate in research. The only restriction we placed was that the respondents reside in the U.S. We enrolled 150 people. What we found has not yet been published or peer-reviewed. The results were striking. The majority of people who participated disliked the idea of AI-generated art and held the view that human art has an emotional depth that machines either can't or shouldn't reproduce."

Artificial intelligence has rapidly developed the ability to create art across many fields, including writing, digital art, photos, videos, three-dimensional models, dance choreography, and architectural designs. A survey of 150 U.S. residents recruited through Prolific investigated public attitudes toward AI-generated art. The results indicated that a majority disliked AI-generated art and believed human art possesses an emotional depth that machines either cannot or should not reproduce. Respondents expressed conditional openness to AI-generated art when an artist remained involved in the process. The survey findings are preliminary and had not been published or peer-reviewed.

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