Environmental and Social Sustainability of Creative-Ai
This work addresses sustainability and ethical problems for artists and policymakers, but it is incremental as it outlines ongoing research without presenting new findings.
The paper investigates the environmental and ethical sustainability of Creative-AI in artistic processes, focusing on its impacts on material practices and issues of power, authorship, and ownership, but does not report specific results or numbers as it is an outline of ongoing research.
The recent developments of artificial intelligence increase its capability for the creation of arts in both largely autonomous and collaborative contexts. In both contexts, Ai aims to imitate, combine, and extend existing artistic styles, and can transform creative practices. In our ongoing research, we investigate such Creative-Ai from sustainability and ethical perspectives. The two main focus areas are understanding the environmental sustainability aspects (material, practices) in the context of artistic processes that involve Creative-Ai, and ethical issues related to who gets to be involved in the creation process (power, authorship, ownership). This paper provides an outline of our ongoing research in these two directions. We will present our interdisciplinary approach, which combines interviews, workshops, online ethnography, and energy measurements, to address our research questions: How is Creative-Ai currently used by artist communities, and which future applications do artists imagine? When Ai is applied to creating art, how might it impact the economy and environment? And, how can answers to these questions guide requirements for intellectual property regimes for Creative-Ai?