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Student arrested for eating AI art in UAF gallery protest — The Sun Star - UAF's Student Voice

On Tuesday, January 13, University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate student Graham Granger was detained after he had been found “ripping ar

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Cannot consumption of AI be considered an art expression?

Of course it can, and performance art is art, but I feel like it’s important to know that the art being eaten was a series of AI generated images reflecting the artist’s experience of AI psychosis and commenting on the way that AI use changes the users’ interactions with the world. The images were generated by someone who has been using image generation tools in their art since 2017 and who was educated as an artist using traditional techniques.

The piece that the protester ate was made by an MFA student and wasn’t an attempt to “pass off” generated images themselves as art, the art was the presentation of the images and their sequence and variety (there’s an element of obsessive iteration visible even in the remaining images - an empty room, the same room with different light, the same room with a smiling woman on the bed, the same woman standing in different poses, which speaks to me of someone furiously attempting to construct a comforting reality and finding the tools in your hands inadequate, but that’s just my interpretation of what remains).