Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: B1, field of study: Arts)

Why Artificial Inteligence who can generate image can be a good thing for artist as much as a very bad thing ?
First this type of AI are not new, the first IA who was able to generate image was create in the end of the 60s, this AI was called AARON and was able to generate abstract image while respecting the process of creation of a human art work. Today the real problem with the AI is not what they can do it's what people do with them, because no law are protecting the artists and AI can be found easily online and for free, people start to use it to replace human. Society can now have a new brand logo and people who want a drawing, both can now have it immediately without waiting and without paying a human for that, and that is one of the reason why AI can be bad for artists. Another reasons is that IA can immitate artists style just with some references they find on internet, they take artists work without their consent to create something that look that their works. The problem is also social media, where it's difficult to be famous as an artists but where today it's also one of the better way for new or young artists to make money. On social media we can find some people that are called "eraser artists" who take AI art they find and post them online telling that they create it, the problem with that is that they became famous and make money with image that was produce by a IA with the steal art of someone who in general is not famous, so "eraser artists" became famous with a mix of work of non-famous artist, and the other problem with that is that real artist are sometime accuse of being "eraser artists" and so lose in popularity and so lose money.
But if they are use in a good way AI can also help artists, artists can collaborate, find inspiration, skip some stage of creation, AI can be a really good tools to help artists. Some artists already start to create in collaboration with AI.
The only way for AI to be safe for artists is to make law to protect them, a law who protect artists work from being steal by IA, a law that punish big society to use AI for their logo or new publicity campaign. Artists need to be protect to not be replace by AI ( I don't think AI will entirely replace human but small artist will have so much more difficulty ), but if the artists are protect AI can become a very usefull tools.