Using AI for Art

I do use AI tools for making art. Look at the elf above. You can see how my arthritis and poor eyesight have affected my work. The eyes no longer line up like they did in the pencil copy. And the nose lost some of its cartoon charm as arthritic hands left the rough draft line and wandered into the bad art swamps of mediocrity. The elf below has those two things corrected by using an AI overlay tool called AI Mirror. Yes, it makes minor changes that I don’t want, but they are easily corrected in a simple Microsoft Paint file, or a more extensive edit in Picsart AI Photo Shop Editor.

Some artists bristle at me for using AI at all, but I want to point out that I am using it to work on my own artworks, not asking it to create something by giving it a word prompt and expecting it to go steal images from other artists. I use it much the same way I used digital art apps for drawing on computer screens, then modifying the picture with the many erasures and smooth replacement lines that digital art tools allow. The pictures I make, even the AI-assisted ones, are pictures made by me.

I fully agree that AI programs who make prompted art from stolen artwork are morally wrong. And nobody ever asked me about training their AI artificial artists on my work, though from WordPress and Facebook, and Instagram, they probably already have.

I will continue to experiment in using AI tools for making art projects. But I will also try to do it the right way.