Creatives up in arms over claim that AI is killing human art

In brief Everyone agrees that text-to-image models are here to stay, though opinions are divided over AI-generated art. Some artists are enthralled by the ability to create completely new digital images using text prompts and see it as a new tool to be creative. Other people who make their living from art, however, detest the technology – believing it will cost them their jobs and devalue their work. A machine can be trained to recreate a particular artist's style and outpace human artists, as RJ Palmer, a conceptual artist, told the BBC. "Right now, if an artist wants to copy my style, they might spend a week trying to replicate it. That's one person spending a week to create one thing. With this machine, you can produce hundreds of them a week."