Wednesday, September 6th, 2023
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Location: 1 Commandant’s Lane, Benicia
$15 non-member (Payment button below)/ Free event for Arts Benicia Members
Registration is full.
Part of Arts Benicia’s Art Talks … and Timely Conversations Series:
Event Description: Are AI image generators a new aide to human creativity or a threat? Something to be
curious or worried about? Recently developed image-generators such as Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney can produce images from any prompt in seconds. AI image generators digest huge numbers of images with their related text – generally from the internet — to “understand” their content and enabling them to create new images from a prompt. The digested images include the work of artists and other creators, most of whom are unaware their content has been used in this way. Is it art? How is it different from the work of humans? What are the implications for traditional artists? What are the legal implications of works that are created using intellectual property owned by others? Arts Benicia presents a timely conversation with Jack Kolk and Terry Scott about the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of art.
ABOUT THE EVENT SPEAKERS
Jack Kolk has more than 40 years of experience in the information technology industry. As President and CEO of Automated Compliance Reporting Solutions, Inc. (ACR2) and owner of Accreditation Helper dba Compliance Helper, his businesses help other companies to achieve privacy and information security compliance and maintain awareness of technology developments such as artificial intelligence and its impact on information integrity.
Read his full biography here.
Terry Scott Currently Vice-Mayor of Benicia, served for seven years as chair of the Arts and Culture Commission 
and has been involved in numerous civic and charitable organizations. Terry served as the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Brand Creative Services at Hasbro, Inc., and was a founding partner/member of FirstMatters, Inc. an international futurist and visionary collective developing long-term business strategies for some of the world’s largest corporations. Read his full biography here.
AI Artwork created by Jasper (AI Art Generator)