Artificial intelligence art

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Artificial intelligence art is any visual artwork created through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as text-to-image models.^[1] AI art began to gain popularity in the mid- to late-20th century through the boom of artificial intelligence (AI boom).

In the early 21st century, the increased availability of AI art tools to the general public provides broad use in concept art or game development. AI art has been posted on many social media platforms and has been widely criticized for its "unethical" usage on other artists' works, its impact on traditional artists, and for its potential defamation issues. Some AI art has a hard-coded, pre-programmed "signature" as a way to try to prevent these issues. Throughout its history, artificial intelligence art has also raised many philosophical concerns, including those related to copyright, deception, and what is considered "art" in a human–AI context and collaboration.

Some AI art models are prompt-based AI with an inpainting feature to partially regenerate AI art and a generate "variant" feature; collages and manual hand fixes have been used too. AI art has won some contests where such AI usage is prohibited and has fooled some people into thinking it is human art or a photograph.