Generative KI und die Künste

Since the surprising breakthrough of generative AI models, the old debate about artificial intelligence has been on everyone’s lips, although the associated discussion is often surprisingly undifferentiated; the talk is then of ’the’ AI and what its emergence means for ’us’ - and of course also of ‘its’ (many) dangers. It is not surprising that phrases such as ‘AI is the future’ are not too far off the mark, usually accompanied by a warning not to miss out. What to do with a ‘stochastic parrot’ that can paint, write poetry and compose?
Based on the observation that ’AI is the present’, Merz Akademie lecturer Jürgen Riethmüller attempts to remedy this deficit a little from a cultural theory perspective in Generative KI und die Künste by focussing entirely on the question of the future role of generative AI models in the arts. Surprisingly, the strengths of these applications seem to lie particularly in the fictional area of (transmedial) ‘invented images’.
Book in German language.