Is There an Ethical Path for AI Art?

Hyperallergic reviews “Imaging after Photography” at Rice University in Houston, arguing that ethical approaches to AI art are possible when artists use the technology critically and transparently. Co-curator Alison Weaver, executive director of Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts, says “technology is not neutral” because it reflects human bias, and she argues that corporate interests have dominated AI’s development while artists’ voices should be centered. The exhibition presents seven contemporary artists’ work made since 2020 that addresses AI’s impact on photography and the idea of a “post-photographic moment,” where photorealistic images no longer guarantee truth. On ethics, the article notes that participating artists trained algorithms on datasets consisting of their own images or material largely in the public domain, aiming to avoid plagiarism and exploitative data use.

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