{"id":556545,"date":"2026-08-02T19:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556545\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:39:24","slug":"business-and-arts-nl-hosting-focus-groups-to-discuss-ai-use-in-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556545\/","title":{"rendered":"Business and Arts NL Hosting Focus Groups to Discuss AI Use in Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/business-arts-nl-logo.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Business and Arts NL Hosting Focus Groups to Discuss AI Use in Art\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The use of AI in art has been a hot topic of late as artists consider the implications of the technology on the work they do.   <\/p>\n<p>While some artists are embracing AI, many concerns remain. <\/p>\n<p>Business and Arts NL is hosting two focus groups in August to help address some of those concerns and foster greater AI literacy among those in the creative community. <\/p>\n<p>Executive Director Amy Henderson says the workshops will include conversations on the proper and ethical use of AI in art. <\/p>\n<p>Henderson says there are artists in the community and people in the world who are really cautious about the fact that a lot of AI has been trained on the \u201cintellectual property of people who are not being compensated for their work\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is major unequal economic impact in place here, so using it feels like feeding into a system that feels out of our control.\u201d she said, \u201cand then erodes value of creativity, authenticity and the impact on people\u2019s psychological well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The use of AI in art has been a hot topic of late as artists consider the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,249282,111,156169,249279,139,69,249281,249283,249280,249276,249277,249278],"class_list":["post-556545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-new-zealand","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}