OK well it's clear who is the real artist in this scenario. Bravo to the student who actually expressed genuine human emotion by seeing that dross for what it is.

Chew it up. Spit it out.

"AI artwork"

Nope, sorry. It's not art and no work was put into it.

Hopefully people are cheering this person on.

Now, that's what I call art!

"AI-generated images by fine arts student Nick Dwyer." Suuurrrreeee, you are a fine arts student.

There isn't going to be any getting around it. At the absolute best, people will use ai for images and ideas, and then hand copy\draw\paint it themselves. AI with an extra step. Movie and game industry will definitely use it, because capitalism and eventually not enough consumers will care.

The headline makes it sound like he only did this to one piece of art, but he was much busier than that:

According to the police department, Granger chewed up at least 57 of the 160 images

Is the process of tearing and chewing the ai art, he made actual art

Dwyer has since defended his work, telling The Sun Star that he had been using AI for his art since 2017. He said his exhibit “explores identity, character narrative creation and crafting false memories of relationships in an interactive role digitally crafted before, during and after a state of AI psychosis.”

The term “AI psychosis” has been used by health professionals to describe a troubling phenomenon in which users of AI tools are experiencing symptoms of psychosis or delusional episodes. Experts have raised concerns over the trend, warning that more and more people could be caught up in these delusions as they become hooked on AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

In extreme cases, these tools have been alleged to have led to numerous deaths, including the suicide of a 16-year-old.

Dwyer told The Sun Star that he had fallen into AI psychosis himself, turning to art to portray the experience.

Maybe take the hint and stop using AI buddy.

Relatable

With AI art, it consumes others art and regurgitates AI art. Did the guy just become AI?

Feels like this may have been a logically driven response.

That's so radical!

The AI-generated exhibit was about the dangers of AI psychosis, though it did not address indigestion.

I can definitely understand why he was driven to do this. Fire is much faster, more thorough, and has much less risk of ingesting toxic substances, but can easily get out of control and damage real art or people's health. Teeth are the better tools here.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar??

AI art is art the same way a $20 stainless steel "ninja" katana from a flea market is a genuine sword

The article doesn't have pictures but one it links to does: https://www.uafsunstar.com/news/student-eats-ai-art-in-uaf-gallery-protest-arrested

The artist's reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/1qcektc/my_art_in_a_gallery_show_was_destroyed_over_ai/, which includes real pictures alongside some photorealistic AI generated depictions of the art being chewed up. He disclosed in the post text which of the pictures those are and which are real, but of course some people in the comments didn't read that and took discrepancies in the images to mean that the whole event was faked. Which is pretty brilliant if intentional, fits well with the "ChatGPT psychosis" topic of the original piece. Might have gotten slightly out of hand though since these images are now featured in screenshot of screenshot style posts that lack the context that it's not a real picture.

I also like the memes people are making about it, overall a very entertaining event.

Please tell me the piece was called "who's afraid of RedAI"

was that act just part of the art?

Okay, which one of you Lemmings did this?

Nice