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This paper aims to give a contribution to one of the most discussed issues in recent times, in both scientific and art communities: the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based tools for creating artworks. As the issue is strongly multidisciplinary, we structured the paper as a debate between experts in several fields (computer science, art history, philosophy) to listen to their specific points of view on the topic. The first part of the paper is focused on the relationship between the artists and the use of AI techniques. Furthermore, we organized an art exhibition with images created by an AI-based tools, to also collect people’s feedbacks. We submitted to the viewers a questionnaire and their answers are reported in the experimental section. This, the second part is more focused on the visitors’ perspective and about their perception on the use of these tools.
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Mazzola, G., Carapezza, M., Chella, A., Mantoan, D. (2024). Artificial Intelligence in Art Generation: An Open Issue. In: Foresti, G.L., Fusiello, A., Hancock, E. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2023 Workshops. ICIAP 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14366. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51026-7_23
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