So, briefly put – what can AI art envision, for a category of people who have often been denied joy and happiness in media, who are envisioned singularly as oppressed, angry, or just plain, homogenous? Courtesy DALL-E and Midjourney, two different websites that allow users to generate art based on prompts – “a cat sleeping on a desk, in the style of Gustav Klimt”, or even “a futuristic painting of a floating pen in outer space, neon”, here is an essay of how AI imagines Muslim women, in various moods, shades and artistic styles
Op-eds about the technical aspects of AIgenerated art and writing are all the rage these days. The how, the why, the why nots and the dangers – are all available in front of you, depending on the level of complexity you wish to understand. This isn’t that. Yes, AI is not knowledge, but AI can be a means to curate, perfect and even correct our own writing; perhaps, AI will take over the mundane jobs that we all detest, like writing requisition letters or creating outlines (and thank God for that). Maybe it will steal our jobs – who knows? Hark back to the buzz about Kindle killing off books, or Wikipedia putting an end to ‘research’. But for now, here is a free-wheeling take on the lighter stuff: a fantasy of ‘making’ art for those people who have no capability of being artists, like yours truly. For a brief moment, one can imagine what it would be like to create this with one’s own hand, but in this life, maybe AI will have to do it!
So, briefly put – what can AI art envision, for a category of people who have often been denied joy and happiness in media, who are envisioned singularly as oppressed, angry, or just plain, homogenous? Courtesy DALL-E and Midjourney, two different websites that allow users to generate art based on prompts – “a cat sleeping on a desk, in the style of Gustav Klimt”, or even “a futuristic painting of a floating pen in outer space, neon”, here is an essay of how AI imagines Muslim women, in various moods, shades and artistic styles

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