FAQ

What is the gallery exhibition?

Over December ~9-11, Human-Assisted Art will host an AI-focused art exhibition in a New York City gallery. Large-scale printed works from the competition will be displayed alongside other digital and analog human creations made in collaboration with AI. We will also feature some interactive exhibits, including human performances of AI-generated music. RSVP for further updates on the event.

Why three groups with separate weeks of voting?

This allows humans to submit up to three separate images to the competition, and for three independent selections to emerge with independent rounds of voting. You can submit a work early to maximize the time during which it is available for voting, or you can wait to see other entries in a group and get an idea of your competition.

How are competition entries displayed/sorted?

For each group, images will be displayed in a random order for the first 500 entries received. If more than 500 entries have been received in a group, entries will then be sorted from most recently received to oldest.

What counts as AI?

For this competition, we are specifically focused on diffusion and GAN-style models such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. You are welcome to use a homegrown/modified model so long as it is similar in its general nature. Competition entries are limited to text-to-image style creations, *not* image-to-image, outpainting, inpainting, etc. However, we may likely explore and showcase some of these techniques at the exhibition as well. If you have questions about a specific approach, please contact us.

What happens if I win or my work is selected?

For the three most popular works and the pieces chosen by our curatorial panel, we will reach out to you at your provided email address. If needed, we will work with you on further upscaling your image, as well as choosing a final size and print materials.

We will need your legal name and address for signing a short contract agreeing to terms, but you may remain pseudonymous as an artist if you wish. You are encouraged but not required to attend the NYC gallery exhibition in person.

Unique prints from the competition will be available for sale via online auction for the duration of the gallery exhibition. You will receive 50% of the sale price for your work.

Who is behind all this? Why?

The Human-Assisted Art Collective is a group of artists and technologists, based primarily in New York, who are passionate about showcasing the potential of AI for art and artists. Together we collectively hold decades of experience in art, AI research, and the fuzzy spaces in between. We believe that AI-generated and AI-inspired works of art need a dedicated space to explore the interactive, iterative process between artist and machine.

Isn’t AI bad for art?

Technology by itself is not inherently “good” or “bad” - but how we use that technology certainly can be. Much like the technologies of oil painting or photography, AI toolsets will forever change the world of art. It is up to us to shape that change, ensuring that it expands access, broadens our collective creative abilities, supports human artists, and brings an overall greater participation in and appreciation of art.

Is this art?

No, this is Patrick.