Sheffield artist and painter Jonathan Wilkinson graduated from Sheffield Hallam University 20 years ago with a Fine Arts degree. He still works from his attic studio in the city and his urban landscape prints adorn many walls across South Yorkshire.<\/p>\n
He said he’s also “adjusted” the way he showcases his work.<\/p>\n
“I do a lot of pencil work first. It’s what I’ve been doing for 40 years but I never used to really share that, but I’ve started to let people see it on Instagram, to show my workings and see that this is created by a human”.<\/p>\n
Wilkinson acknowledges that he has lost income because of AI.<\/p>\n
“There was a particular illustration job that I had for quite some time as a freelancer,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I would get paid a decent daily rate to do it, but I guess you don’t really need to pay that anymore when you just can generate a version of it in a matter of minutes.”<\/p>\n
So is it easy for people to spot the difference between AI prints and those generated by a genuine artist? Wilkinson is hopeful that the public are becoming more attuned to the differences.<\/p>\n
“I was in a major coffee chain the other day with a huge mural stuck on the wall and, because it’d been blown up and because I’ve got an eye for this, I could tell it was AI.<\/p>\n
“What’s disappointing is that paying for some local art would be a drop in the ocean to a big billion dollar company like that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield artist and painter Jonathan Wilkinson graduated from Sheffield Hallam University 20 years ago with a Fine Arts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-587161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}