This blog immediately made me start to think about what defines a digital artist as it opened
up with a story about an AI image that won a digital art award. Even though they did not have a hand in the literal creation of the image, the artist typed in a prompt for AI on a program called Midjourney and submitted the result to a competition and won. This really made me think about what constitutes as actually creating art. There were most likely many digital artists who submitted work to the competition who spent hours on their device, perfecting their image and taking their work very seriously. I imagine the ache of your work that you put so much time in not being awarded because someone else simply typed in an interesting prompt and ultimately created a better image within seconds. Ouch. I think AI art somewhat blurs the lines of what being a true artist is. The blog went in depth on the history of digital art and how we ended up where we are today and something that I noticed was that, over time, artists are taking steps further and further back from their work. Instead of physically creating work from scratch, a lot of artists especially sculptors and digital artists, are creating work from afar through either designing the piece and making something/someone else create it or simply creating work from found-objects or even just creating work through inputting AI prompts and letting a computer do the rest. For example, Jeff Koons is known to not lay a finger on his art because he simply designs balloon dogs and has someone else create them. Personally, I think this takes away from the authenticity and enjoyment of creating art. However, I do think AI art still needs to count as real art as it is creations that have never been made before. I just think they should not be apart of competitions that involved art that was made more by hand or step-by-step digitally. There should be separate competitions for AI.
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