Published in the journal of Empirical Studies in the Arts researcher Harsha Gangadharbatla conducted a study that shows that impressionistic landscapes and geometric abstractions created by human artists were not distinguishable from computer-made artworks made from a single artist’s algorithms. The study was inspired by the sale of “Edmond de Belamy”, the AI-generated portrait by made by the creative studio Obvious. This particular artwork went for $432,500 back in 2018, a price 10 times higher than a human-made artwork.
The results from the study show that 75% of people incorrectly guessed the original creator in 4 out of the 5 artworks in the survey. The study also points out that people were most likely to attribute the abstraction works to AI-creators. Gangadharbatla states that AI artwork creation is relatively harmless but it could cause some issues from an advertising point-of-view and questions.
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