Environmental and Social Sustainability of Creative-Ai

TL;DR

This paper explores the environmental and ethical implications of Creative-Ai, focusing on sustainability, authorship, and ownership, through interdisciplinary research methods involving artists and energy analysis.

Contribution

It presents an ongoing interdisciplinary approach to understanding Creative-Ai's sustainability and ethical issues, integrating interviews, workshops, ethnography, and energy measurements.

Findings

Current use of Creative-Ai by artists analyzed

Potential environmental impacts of Creative-Ai discussed

Guidelines for intellectual property in Creative-Ai proposed

Abstract

The recent developments of artificial intelligence increase its capability for the creation of arts in both largely autonomous and collaborative contexts. In both contexts, Ai aims to imitate, combine, and extend existing artistic styles, and can transform creative practices. In our ongoing research, we investigate such Creative-Ai from sustainability and ethical perspectives. The two main focus areas are understanding the environmental sustainability aspects (material, practices) in the context of artistic processes that involve Creative-Ai, and ethical issues related to who gets to be involved in the creation process (power, authorship, ownership). This paper provides an outline of our ongoing research in these two directions. We will present our interdisciplinary approach, which combines interviews, workshops, online ethnography, and energy measurements, to address our research questions: How is Creative-Ai currently used by artist communities, and which future applications do artists imagine? When Ai is applied to creating art, how might it impact the economy and environment? And, how can answers to these questions guide requirements for intellectual property regimes for Creative-Ai?