“Playform makes it possible for me to explore using AI without having to get a second degree in computer science.”
— Jennifer Yu
What is AI Art? A short introduction to AI Art
AI Art is art created by artists using AI as a tool. AI does not create art, artists make the art.
With Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming incorporated into more aspects of our daily lives, it’s only natural that artists would also start to experiment with artificial intelligence. Over the last 50 years, several artists have been exploring writing computer programs to generate art (algorithmic art, generative art) incorporating some intelligent elements in some cases. The most prominent early example of such work is by Harold Cohen and his art-making program AARON, which produced drawings that followed a set of rules Cohen had hard-coded.
But AI has progressed over the past couple of decades and incorporated machine learning technology. This resulted in a new wave of algorithmic art that uses AI in new ways to make art in the last few years. In contrast to traditional algorithmic art, in which the artist had to write detailed code that already specified the rules for the desired aesthetics, in this new wave the algorithms are set up by the artists to “learn” the aesthetics by looking at many images using machine learning technology. The algorithm only then generates new images that follow the aesthetics it has learned.
It was the development of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), by Goodfellow et al in 2014, that has sparked this new wave of AI Art. However, using GAN-like generative methods in making art is challenging and beyond the reach of the majority of artists, except for expert creative technologists.
What Kind of AI Art I can generate with Playform ?
We built Playform to make AI accessible for artists. We want artists to be able to explore and experiment with AI as part of their own creative process, without worrying about AI terminology, or the need to navigate unguided through the vast ocean of AI and GAN-like algorithms.
Most generative-AI algorithms are mainly developed by AI researchers in academia and big corporate research labs to push the technology boundary. Artists and creatives are not typically the target audience when these algorithms are developed. The use of these algorithms as part of an artist’s work is an act of creativity by the artist who has to be imaginative in how to bend, adopt, and utilize such non-specialized tools for their purpose. At Playform we focused on building AI that fits the creative process of different artists, from the stage of looking for inspiration, to preparation of assets, all the way to producing final works.
AI Art generators come in different forms. In Playform we offer an integrated platform to experiment and explore with the different and best AI art generators out there. Playform offer the only train-your-own GANs to generate your own AI art that is totally yours without any copyright infringement issues. Playform also offers a variety of popular AI generators, such as Text-to-image, Style Transfer Filter, Sketch-to-art, AI-powered upscaling, AI video generation and other tools.
We created Playform for you. What will you create with Playform?
“Playform utilizes GANs to enrich creativity rather than replace it. Playform is user-friendly software that allows artists to custom train the AI with their own images and gives artists a variety of ways to experiment with generative AI.”
-insideBIGDATA
“unlike similar AI “art” generators that focus on a particular genre (like photo-realistic landscapes or headshots), Playform’s ‘Sketch-to-Image’ tool is able to synthesize imagery across multiple genres and styles.”
-Digital Journal
“The most significant artistic achievement of the year”
-Artsy
“The catalog calls the show a “collaboration between an artificial intelligence and its creator, a move meant to spotlight, and anthropomorphize, the machine-learning algorithm that did most of the work.”
-The Atlantic
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