What Becomes of "Work" in AI "Artwork"?

Baptiste Caramiaux (1, 2, 3) , Sarah Fdili Alaoui (4, 5) , Stacy Hsueh (6)

1 SU - Sorbonne Université
2 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
3 ISIR - Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique
4 LISN - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique
5 Université Paris-Saclay
6 KTH - KTH Royal Institute of Technology [Stockholm]

Of the many sectors where AI has been perceived and communicated as an autonomous entity capable of replacing human labour, the creative and arts sectors have generated a lot of discussion because creativity has always been seen as an exclusively human capability. In this proposal, we expose the shift in narrative from artworks created with AI to artworks created by AI. Then, through interviews with internationally renowned artists involving AI in their artwork, we challenge this narrative and highlight the role of human labour in this movement, showing in particular that artists develop skills aimed at crafting AI. We propose to discuss this research in the workshop and to extend to the question of reasserting human labour in creative automation.

Mots clés: AI-Art; Creative AI; Creative and Cultural Sectors; Art & Technology; Cultural Studies

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Baptiste Caramiaux, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Stacy Hsueh. What Becomes of "Work" in AI "Artwork"?. CHI'22 Conference - Workshop on Outsourcing Artificial Intelligence: Responding to the Reassertion of the Human Element into Automation, Apr 2022, New Orleans, United States. ⟨10.1145/nnnnnnn.nnnnnnn⟩. ⟨hal-03810560⟩