AI Art Explodes in Volume and Price, But Lacks Human Touch

An AI-generated portrait sold for over $400k in 2018, making it the most expensive AI art sold to date.

AI art generators like Stable Diffusion draw from massive databases of digitized human artworks, like LAION-5B with 6 billion images.

Popular AI image generators can create millions of unique images daily, far more than any human artist.

AI art has faced backlash from human artists whose styles are imitated without consent, like painter Greg Rutkowski.

In surveys, few people consider AI art generators an important advance compared to AI in medicine and other fields.