week 3 Flashcards
(26 cards)
AICAN
an ai trained not just to imitate but to create new artistic styles using creative adversarial networks - not just imitate like GANS
AICAN trained on
80,000 artworks, AICAN generates original art with stylistic ambiguity
visual turing test
75% of viewers couldnt tell art from AI from human art
main point of this article
ai is not replacing artisitcs but its a creative partner
debate of the article
ai art has not natural (emotions) raising questions about authorship and inten
GAN
learns by copying
CAN
learns by innovating
AARON (Harold Cohen):
One of the first AI artists.
david salle
Trained an AI in his style — AI as creative assistant.
adam harveys cv dazzle
Anti-surveillance fashion art.
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Asunder Project:
Critiques predictive AI models and climate science.
Lauren McCarthy’s LAUREN
Examined intimacy and privacy in smart homes.
Eliza Effect:
People tend to think AI “understands” more than it does.
Demystification
Critical artists reveal what AI systems are really doing
Critical AI Art Manifesto
Art that challenges AI’s role in society.
What is the key difference between GANs and CANs in the context of AI-generated art?
A) GANs are used for text generation, CANs for image classification
B) GANs imitate styles, while CANs aim to create novel artistic styles
C) GANs use reinforcement learning, CANs use supervised learning
D) GANs require no data, while CANs do
b
What was the result of the Visual Turing Test involving AICAN?
A) AICAN’s art was always identified as AI-generated
B) Most viewers could easily spot the AI-generated art
C) 75% of participants mistook AICAN’s art for human-created work
D) The test failed to produce any measurable results
c
What concept does the “Eliza Effect” refer to?
A) The overestimation of AI’s ability to simulate understanding
B) The automatic annotation of historical texts by AI
C) The tendency to undertrain AI on biased data
D) AI-generated art that mimics surrealism
a
Which artist is known for training an AI to replicate their personal artistic style?
A) Harold Cohen
B) Adam Harvey
C) David Salle
D) Lauren McCarthy
C
What is a key critique of AI-generated art compared to photography as an art form?
A) AI art is too realistic
B) AI art lacks a natural referent, unlike photography
C) Photography always involves human creativity
D) AI art only replicates classic styles
B
What does “Critical AI Art” aim to do?
A) Celebrate the achievements of machine learning in art
B) Enhance the aesthetics of AI-generated paintings
C) Expose the societal, ethical, and political issues of AI
D) Train AI models to become better critics
C
What is an example of AI used in historical art research?
A) GANs generating Renaissance-style art
B) Automatic annotation and object detection in 17th-century Dutch paintings
C) AI-generated self-portraits from baroque datasets
D) Using AI to restore damaged paintings
B
What is “data poisoning” in the context of AI and art?
A) Using flawed data to accelerate AI training
B) Corrupting AI memory with too many prompts
C) Techniques artists use to prevent AI from learning on their work
D) Feeding AI data that makes it produce horror-themed art
C
Which of the following artworks is known for its critique of surveillance through fashion design?
A) AARON
B) LAUREN
C) Asunder
D) CV Dazzle
D
