A major Australian university has rejected student calls for a new subject teaching generative AI to artists to be scrapped over environmental and intellectual property concerns, with the course’s head warning its critics risked being “anti-art”.
“Generative AI for Artists” is being taught for the first time at the University of New South Wales next semester. The elective was initially introduced in 2021 under the name “Emerging Media Technologies Studio” and was reworked last year under its current format.
