Research Seminars, Colloquia and Reading Groups
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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CRPLA Seminar: Claire Anscomb (De Montfort) - 'Trust and Creativity in AI Art Practices'R2.41Abstract: Rapid advances in visual forms of generative AI have prompted disagreement about the nature, ethics and integrity of the new practices arising from uses of the technology. Correspondingly, scepticism is routinely expressed towards their prospects as art. Addressing worries about the use of copyrighted materials as training data, I look to appropriation art to argue that the concern underpinning much of the scepticism is whether the creator has acted for what might be termed 鈥渁rtistic reasons鈥�. I disentangle what it means to act for 鈥渁rtistic reasons鈥� in these practices and propose that a lack of trust, compounded by social media platforms, in image-makers to act with a commitment to these threatens aesthetic discourse about these practices. |