The Ethical Implications of AI in Creative Industries: A Focus on AI-Generated Art

TL;DR

This paper examines the ethical challenges of AI-generated art, highlighting issues like environmental impact, copyright, misinformation, and job displacement, and advocates for proper regulation and legislation.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of ethical issues in AI-generated art and proposes solutions and regulatory frameworks to address these challenges.

Findings

AI art increases carbon emissions

Generative AI spreads misinformation and infringes copyrights

AI art contributes to artist displacement and job loss

Abstract

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to grow daily, more exciting (and somewhat controversial) technology emerges every other day. As we see the advancements in AI, we see more and more people becoming skeptical of it. This paper explores the complications and confusion around the ethics of generative AI art. We delve deep into the ethical side of AI, specifically generative art. We step back from the excitement and observe the impossible conundrums that this impressive technology produces. Covering environmental consequences, celebrity representation, intellectual property, deep fakes, and artist displacement. Our research found that generative AI art is responsible for increased carbon emissions, spreading misinformation, copyright infringement, unlawful depiction, and job displacement. In light of this, we propose multiple possible solutions for these problems. We address each situation's history, cause, and consequences and offer different viewpoints. At the root of it all, though, the central theme is that generative AI Art needs to be correctly legislated and regulated.