So now everyone can draw?

Big question: Will AI democratise art? Major auction house Christie’s held its inaugural AI art auction titled Augmented Intelligence recently, which featured AI artworks such as this print created by ClownVamps The Junk Machine. — AFP

IN the past week or so, social media feeds have been flooded with stylised portraits bearing an uncanny resemblance to the iconic animation style of much-loved Japanese production house Studio Ghibli.

But these are not new materials from the studio’s latest animated film; they are images generated by OpenAI’s most recent generative artificial intelligence (AI) model, ChatGPT-4o, which was launched late last month.