Getty Images Pairs Up With Nvidia: When AI Crafts Photos, Who’s The Real Artist?

Summary of Key Points

• Well-known stock photo company, Getty Images, is now teaming up with tech heavyweight Nvidia to create an innovative AI-powered image generator.
• This tool can dream up and then produce unique, never-before-seen images.
• Yet, a grey cloud of confusion and controversy hovers over the tool – the question remains about who should get the credit for the AI-crafted images.

Hot Take

AI: The New Picasso or just a Modern Brush?

The fusion of Getty Images, the Da Vinci of the stock photos world, with Nvidia, the Einstein of tech, seems blissful at first blush. Together, they’ve spawned a new artificial intelligence machine that can craft beautiful images with all the flair of a modern Picasso… only their “Picasso” runs on algorithms instead of absinthe.

But as we commend this marvel of modern tech coupling, a significant puzzler juts out. If these AI babies are creating art by themselves, without a human hand guiding every stroke, does AI don the hat of artist or are they the brush merely wielded by the human creators?

In my witty world, while the AI is definitely a Picasso for the new age, granting it sole ownership of its creations seems a bit manager-stealing-credit-from-the-intern, doesn’t it? Let’s not delegitimize the strokes of genius put forth by human developers. After all, without them, the AI wouldn’t even have an easel.

As this art-trickery blurs the line between man and machine, it forces us into a reinvention of how we perceive creativity and ownership. Let’s just hope that in this whirlwind of artificial creativity, we don’t end up in a dystopian, AI-led, art world where the phrase “starving artist” has a silicon connotation.

Original Article: https://www.wired.com/story/getty-images-generative-ai-photo-tool/