🔎 The Ethics of AI Art Many people may feel neutral about art that’s made by artificial intelligence. In fact, some AI art can be downright beautiful. But feelings change when people learn how the art was made. Psychologists showed 100 participants various pieces of art made by AI. In one experiment, half the participants looked at the art without any context, while the other half learned that the AI had been trained on a large dataset of human artists’ work and artists’ names. When people knew how the AI system operated, they perceived the images it produced as less morally acceptable. Why this is interesting: The finding of the study was especially pronounced when the creation of these images involved financial gain and artistic acclaim on the part of the AI. But the aesthetic appeal of the images did not change, suggesting that learning how AI works made people reflect on ethics, not aesthetics. What the experts say: “Educating audiences, artists, curators and policymakers about ...