The past few months have seen some tricky environmental questions enter artists’ circles on the topic of AI.
These include whether traditional art-making methods – using centuries-old materials such as paint, ink, cloth and glue – are more or less environmentally damaging than art made with AI software like ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E and the like.
It’s a vexing question that appears within a wider conversation being led by various Silicon Valley tech-heads who are also realising the devastating energy costs of their AI software as it becomes adopted by many millions of users across the globe.
