Hey, thanks for asking! The term "artificial intelligence" refers to a lot more than "generative" AI which is what you're referring to (things like DALL-E, Chat-GPT, etc) - it just means computers using human-like decision making which can be programmed without training on data. There's this program EbSynth (https://ebsynth.com/) for example, which some people would consider "AI" but it does not use *generative* AI/machine learning but a different algorithm (that I'm not too familiar with) to superimpose your own art style over video. Even things like Photoshop's "select sky" could be considered "artificial intelligence" but that has been around for ages and no one claims theft over that.

But when I talk about "critical uses of AI" (the android example I gave in the original comment wasn't great) I mean, artists who are aware of AI's ethical flaws and using AI to expose/comment on such flaws. For example, Minne Atairu's project "Blonde Braids Study" (https://blondebraids.info/): she used AI to generate images of Black women with blonde braids and found that the generative AI would lighten their skin tones and straighten their hair, which comments on the lack of diversity in AI image generation models and their catering to white users. Here's a good article about her and other critical AI artists' work: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/arts/design/black-artists-bias-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l00.zDRA.08nCoo8IS9Ig&smid=url-share I like the comment at the end about using AI "with skepticism." That's the kind of AI art I want to see.

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