‘The Art of Trending’: AI Creating Artwork From Topics Trending on Twitter – Impakter

Thanks to the internet and social networks, we now have real-time access to global dialogues, trends, and news; by using artificial intelligence to create art based on contemporary debate topics, Woods Art Institutes The Art of Trending project examines the boundaries of art and what it is that makes an artist.

The institute describes it as the most contemporary art exhibition, curated by all of us and executed by AI.

It is impressive and frightening at the same time how far artificial intelligence has come in this area. The many questions that this raises for our industry are what I find particularly fascinating, Managing Director of INGO Hamburg Tobias Ahrans tells Impakter.

Launched in cooperation with creative agency INGO Hamburg and MAGIG Design + Technologies, the campaign began on September 19 on the Woods Art Institutessocial platforms and billboards around Germany. Due to its success, it has been extended and will last until the end of October.

The Art of Trendingsoftware employs hashtags gleaned from social listening to determine what is genuinely trending, notably in the realms of society, culture, the environment, and politics. The rest is pretty simple: Artificial Intelligence program DALL-E 2, which creates digital images from text descriptions, turns the hashtags or debate topics into artwork.

The open AI use policy prohibits DALL-E 2 from generating any inappropriate material.

Below are some examples of contemporary debate topics turned into art by artificial intelligence digital image generator DALL-E 2 as part of The Art of Trending project.

Recognizing that the art business is not an exception and that, like with any other sector, AI could eventually threaten artists jobs, Woord Art Institute explains that they dont view the technology as a job replacement but rather as a powerful tool for visual designers that embraces and understands.

As Ahrans tells us, the institute finds the experiment interesting not only on what AI can do but about sparking a conversation around new technologies related to art.

At the end of the day, our goal is to fuel a conversation with this experiment, Ahrans adds.

Furthermore, as tech art becomes more widely available and human art becomes more distinctive, the institute expects that AI image generators will in fact elevate the value of genuine artists work.

Interested in reading more about artificial intelligence making art? Last month, an AI-made work won a fine arts competition in the US. See here:

Art Made by AI Wins Fine Arts Competition

Editors Note:The opinions expressed here by the authors are their own, not those of Impakter.comIn the Featured Photo:Artificial intelligence generates digital image of: Iran Protests. Featured Photo Credit: Woods Art Institute.

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