Fear vs. Ethics: Where AI Art Critics Go Wrong

Artificial intelligence is making a lot of people angry this week. "AI art" has been trending on Twitter for several days now, community members on the popular artist platform Art Station are staging anti-AI art protests, and the tech's biggest advocates have wasted no time in pushing back against the wave of outrage. Hell, even Beeple chimed in with a fantastic visual born of the whole debacle. But this week's madness is only the symptomatic culmination of several months of technological developments and the widespread dissemination of AI-assisted artistic tools. The pressure has been building, and it's now ruptured the surface.