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What artists need to know about AI
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We’ve created this resource pack to remind you about the topics we covered, prompts to try out, information to help you keep learning at your own pace.


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What we covered
- Discover how Artificial Intelligence (AI) apps work
- Learn about the most popular and powerful Generative AI tools used by artists: including DALL·E, Midjourney, Co-Pilot Designer
- Discuss the ethical, safety, and transparency issues surrounding AI art and tools
- Tips and suggestions for protecting your work
You’ll find some helpful reading below under Further Reading. Just click on the “+” sign to expand each section.

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What we learned
- Generative AI is a creative tool that generates new content. It generates new output by mimicking the styles and structure of the data it has been trained on.
- Generative AI systems create new content including text, code, images, audio, and video.
- It’s very difficult for to detect the difference between work created by a human and something created using Generative AI.
- AI can help you cut down repetitive tasks, finish tasks faster, reduce errors, and lets you take on new tasks and skills.
- Use tools like Glaze to help you protect your work from style mimicry.
We found other resources you might find interesting, I’ve added the links and videos below

Using Generative AI to create images
Using Generative AI to create images
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Generative AI tools for artists
- DALL.E – created by OpenAI is a powerful and popular AI tool that creates images based on text descriptions you provide.
- Co-Pilot Designer – made by Microsoft and designed to work well with Microsoft’s suite of applications like Office and Teams. It uses DALL-E engine to generate images.
- Midjourney – is an independent AI image generator. Midjourney focuses on producing highly stylised and imaginative images that stand out.
- Firefly – is Adobe’s AI powered image generation tool that is built into Adobe Creative Cloud suite.
- ImageFX – Google’s AI image generation tool.
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Co-pilot designer
Image Creator from Designer helps you generate images based on your words with AI.
What is image GenAI good at?
- Generating ideas and concepts
- Emulating a specific style or structure
- Rapid experimentation
- Enhancing or modifying existing images
What is image GenAI not good at?
- Getting images exactly as you want
- Being consistent
- Rendering text
- Imaginative, inaccurate representations
- Safety / Cost / Transparency
- Emotional Intelligence
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Try it out
- Create an image:
- PROMPT: “an armchair in the shape of an avocado”
- Create a new image in a specific style:
- PROMPT: “An image of a smiling red haired woman in a coffee shop, sipping a coffee. In the style of __”
- Impressionism | Surrealism | Art Deco
- Cubism | Pixel Art | Line Drawing | Oil Painting
- “Barbie” movie | “Wes Anderson” film
- PROMPT: “An image of a smiling red haired woman in a coffee shop, sipping a coffee. In the style of __”
How accurate were the images? Did you get what you expected?
Did everyone get the same image for the same prompt?
Did the end result feel different to something you’d have created yourself?
- Create an image:
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Create your own self portrait using AI
Create a self portrait using Generative AI. It could be a realistic representation, or it could be abstract.
You will create your self portrait by customising and adapting a pre-written Generative AI prompt.
- Go to Image Creator by Microsoft Designer
- Choose a template to start with
- Run the template
- Edit the prompt to create your self portrait
What was your approach? Realistic or abstract?
Were you able to get what you wanted by editing the prompt?
These prompt templates were adapted from ones created by Steve Bambury
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Recreate a film poster
Recreate a movie poster: either for Barbie or Oppenheimer.
The catch: You must design the poster to appeal to the target audience of the “opposite” film.
- Identify the key elements you want on your poster
- Go to Image Creator by Microsoft Designer
- Craft and iterate prompts to create your counter-poster
Think about what you created, what design principles you used, and how your creation offers a counter-narrative / counter-position to the original film.
This activity was designed by Sarah Fischer, doctoral candidate at IU Bloomington.
Intellectual property
Intellectual property
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Open Government Consultation
The UK government is consulting on updating copyright laws to balance creators’ rights and AI development needs, focusing on fair use of works for AI training, transparency, and proper compensation.
The consultation is open until 25 February 2025
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Has your website or images been scraped by AI?
AI models are trained using images scraped from the internet without artists permission.
Robot crawlers scan websites for images.
You can check if your website or images have been scraped by AI using this tool.
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Fairly Trained
Fairly Trained is a non-profit that certifies AI companies for fairer training data sourcing.
How can you protect your work?
How can you protect your work?
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Glaze
A team from the University of Chicago created a tool called Glaze that is designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry.
The cloaks effectively protect an image’s style across various AI models (e.g. Midjourney, Stable Diffusion). This will still work if the image is sharpened, cropped, screenshot, blurred, de-noised.
It’s free to use and can be run on your own computer.
https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html
Academic paper about Glaze:
https://www.semanticscholar.org/reader/897c0aedead3105b7b6cd1afbb6aeb4f62a06e11
Video tutorials
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