Generative AI and art

The arts (painting, sculpture, photography, music, cinema) are a major focus of generative AI. The principle remains the same: starting from a large-scale learning base of works by human artists, the aim is to provide a production that conforms to the proposed prompt. Numerous systems are available for artists, and even for the general public.

In the image sector, we can cite the Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, Dall-E, Imagen or Lensa systems. The production quality of such systems is astonishing. Let's take two examples among many:

• In 2018, the painting "Portrait d'Edmond de Bellamy", created by a system of antagonistic networks (§