BY EDWARD STEURY

STAFF WRITER

AI-generated art is a strange and wonderful field, and although some are concerned about its impacts on art and the expression of creative freedom, I am here to somewhat naively sway that belief. To begin, I should perhaps explain the brief history of AI-generated art. The first real boom in public interest came from DALLE Mini, a small program that would generate nine blurry, incomprehensible piles of visual noise that sometimes vaguely resembled what you asked for. To me, interest was only gained because people looked upon DALLE Mini as a joke or because they were worried. After all, they supposed, “That blob of red kind of looks like a solo cup! That’s what I asked for! THIS IS THE TERMINATOR TIMELINE!” But then, when interest died down, as it so often does on the Internet, the topic of today’s article was born.