The AI-Generated Art Debate Is Here. And It's Very Messy.

The title of a now-deleted Reddit post read simply: "V2 of a Paul Chadeisson model I've been training". Just below sat three digital renderings of mountain-sized sci-fi cityscapes. Zooming in on them exposed finer details as the glitchy outputs of an artificial intelligence prompt-based image program, but they were nonetheless impressive. The renderings were stylistic replications of the work of Paul Chadeisson, a freelance conceptual artist who's worked on major film, video game, and streaming productions like Black Adam, Cyberpunk 2077, Love, Death & Robots, and the upcoming Dune: Part II. The user who created the now-deleted images had done so by training an AI model explicitly on Chadeisson's work.