Toward an Artist-Centred AI

TL;DR

This paper proposes a framework of key attributes for AI in the arts, emphasizing values like unpredictability, diversity, and evolvability to better align AI with artistic creativity and address associated challenges.

Contribution

It introduces a novel set of atomic attributes that encapsulate the values important for artist-centered AI, moving beyond purely technical considerations.

Findings

AI in arts should be unexpected and diversified

AI tools need to be affordant and evolvable

Framework highlights values crucial for artistic creativity

Abstract

Awareness about the immense impact that artificial intelligence (AI) might have or already has made on the social, economic, political, and cultural realities of our world has become part of the mainstream public discourse. Attributes such as ethical, responsible, or explainable emerge as associative and descriptive nominal references in guidelines that influence perspectives on AI application and development. This paper contextualizes the notions of suitability and desirability of principles, practices, and tools related to the use of AI in the arts. The result is a framework drafted as a set of atomic attributes that summarize the values of AI deemed important for artistic creativity. It was composed by examining the challenges that AI poses to art production, distribution, consumption, and monetization. Considering the differentiating potentials of AI and taking a perspective aside from the purely technical ontology, we argue that artistically pertinent AI should be unexpected, diversified, affordant, and evolvable.