Lately there have been a litany of alarming headlines declaiming the new ways AI is expediting, unnerving, or sometimes comically failing our near-future world. At the heart of these are debates about ownership and privacy, labor and exploitation, reality and fakery. And with the recent breakthroughs of AI image and text generators, the public discussion has entered the art world.
For the latest episode of our How to See series, we spoke with three artists who engage with the ways in which AI and machine learning algorithms are demanding new approaches to art making.