Exploring the impact of ChatGPT on art creation and collaboration: Benefits, challenges and ethical implications

Abstract

This paper examines the chaos caused by introducing advanced language models, specifically ChatGPT, to art. Our focus is on the potential impact of ChatGPT on art creation and collaboration. We explore how it has been utilized to generate art and assist in creative writing and how it facilitates collaboration between artists. This exploration includes an investigation into the use of AI in creating art, music, and literature, emphasizing ChatGPT’s role in generating poetry and prose and its ability to provide valuable suggestions for sentence structure and word choice in creative writing. We conduct case studies and interviews with diverse artists and AI experts to understand the benefits and challenges of using ChatGPT in the creative process. Our findings reveal that artists find ChatGPT helpful in generating new ideas, overcoming creative blocks, and improving the quality of their work. It enables remote collaboration between artists by providing a real-time communication and idea-sharing platform. However, ethical concerns relating to authorship ownership and authenticity have emerged. Artists fear using ChatGPT may lead to losing their artistic identity and ownership of their work. While our data suggests that ChatGPT holds the potential to transform the art world, careful consideration must be given to the ethical implications of AI in art. We recommend future research to focus on developing guidelines for the responsible use of AI in art, safeguarding artists’ rights, and preserving artistic authenticity.