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Should artists be terrified of AI replacing them?

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Every day we wake up to some new AI -generated artefact.

Artist-musicians Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst are AI veterans.

They’ve been grappling with and educating people about it for more than a decade .

Artistry is always evolving. Human artists will make works using AI and works that will reject AI .

The AI revolution has felt uncanny and hallucinatory at times.

But it also compounds my fear that human craft, certainly in digital media, will disappear.

Interviewing those at the techno-cultural vanguard, including Herndon , Dryhurst and Maclean , has given me some sense of peace.

She is currently making a series of AI -generated paintings about motherhood using a model trained on Old Masters’ paintings.

Humans have survived apocalypses before. I guess I’ll pick bananas. Follow Rudi Zygadlo @rudizyga. His latest single, F

AI , is on Spotify and the music video on YouTube .

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