OpenAI gives artists access to unreleased tools like Sora for New York gallery exhibit
OpenAI on Friday announced an art gallery collaboration, allowing artists access to its unreleased artificial intelligence tools for a New York showcase.
OpenAI announced Friday a New York City art gallery collaboration that gives artists access to unreleased artificial intelligence tools.
The exhibit, a series called "Strada Nuova: New Road" on view at Strada Gallery will run for three weeks and centers on a "diverse group of artists [that] is curated to consist of brilliant researchers, academics, and creators working between physical and digital artwork," according to Strada founder Paul Hill.
Hill told CNBC he reached out to OpenAI to suggest the project. Talks began about six months ago and the plan came together with OpenAI offering artists access to tools including its Sora video generator, its Voice Engine voice generator, its DALL-E 3 image generator and ChatGPT, its viral chatbot, as well as educational resources and artist stipends.
Minne Atairu, an interdisciplinary artist who has specialized in using AI in art for the past four years — before ChatGPT even launched — uses image generation, both 2D and 3D, as well as video generation in her art to highlight "understudied gaps" in Black historical archives. For this exhibit, she said she used Sora to create an AI-generated video, "Regina Gloriana," inspired by supernatural horror films produced in Nigeria in the 1990s.
he use of AI in art, in many forms, is part of a wide-ranging debate that has generated heaps of controversy — and an increasing number of lawsuits over alleged copyright infringement and training data.
Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup, was recently hit with a class-action lawsuit in California federal court by three authors over alleged copyright infringement. Last year, a group of prominent U.S. authors, including Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult, sued OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement in using their work to train ChatGPT. And last January, a group of artists filed a class-action lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt over alleged copyright infringement by their AI image-generation tools.