2025/07/01 11:59
When I read an article in the New York Times called "Can You Tell What's Real?" It was in the form of a quiz to guess whether something was AI or not. The results dismayed me. I believed I had the ability to distinguish between AI-generated images. In fact, I only got 3 out of 10 questions right. I thought I was good at guessing them, but that was completely wrong. And embarrassingly, it was judging non-AI images to be "AI-created images"! AI has now acquired the ability to construct the world better than humans can. I began to worry about whether there was any room for me to create in the art world.
I remembered the words of Belgian illustrator Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005), whom I saw at an exhibition about 40 years ago. In an interview, a reporter asked him, "Is it possible to put sadness into art?" to which he replied, "The only thing humans can express is sadness." Those words struck me deeply as a high school student at the time. However, I was convinced that an AI that learns everything about humanity in a matter of seconds would be able to express even "sadness." What will we use to express ourselves in the future?
A.I. Videos Have Never Been Better. Can You Tell What’s Real?
Jean-Michel Folon, 1934-2005
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Folon
