Abstract
Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can reproduce various art styles by deep learning to efficiently produce stunning artworks that seem artistic and arouse emotional resonance among the audience. However, dothese AIartworksgobeyondthelevels of human artists in the present era, will the AI artworks go beyond the levels of human artists in the future, and will these artworks undermine the status of anthropocentrism and trigger anxiety? In response to these questions, experiments were launched to check the representative artworks at different times. In this paper, the experimental research method and the data analysis method were applied to analyze the samples generated by the AI creation tool "Midjourney" and test AI anxiety on the 27 artworks of 9 different art styles and 3 different types to investigate whether respondents are anxious about the development and changes of AI artworks in the present era. In this paper, whether respondents showed a significant difference in their anxiety about various art styles was discussed by taking the art style as the independent variable and AI anxiety as the dependent variable. Moreover, this paper analyzed and discussed the phenomenon that along with the continuous technological advance, AI artworks have gradually changed the cognition and emotion of the public through media dissemination and diffusion, with the objective of guiding the public to correctly understand the changes and development of AI art creation to alleviate the psychological anxiety among the public triggered by the AIdevelopment.
Keywords
Artificial Intelligence(AI); AIartworks; AIanxiety; Anthropocentrism
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.357
Citation
Xu, R., Hsu, Y., Wang, X.,and Mi, H.(2025) Aesthetic Responses and AI Anxiety: Experimental Analysis of Public Perception toward AI Artworks across Different Styles, in Chang, C.-Y., and Hsu, Y. (eds.), IASDR 2025: Design Next, 02-05 December, Taiwan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.357
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Conference Track
Track 3 - Design, Art & Technology
Aesthetic Responses and AI Anxiety: Experimental Analysis of Public Perception toward AI Artworks across Different Styles
Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can reproduce various art styles by deep learning to efficiently produce stunning artworks that seem artistic and arouse emotional resonance among the audience. However, dothese AIartworksgobeyondthelevels of human artists in the present era, will the AI artworks go beyond the levels of human artists in the future, and will these artworks undermine the status of anthropocentrism and trigger anxiety? In response to these questions, experiments were launched to check the representative artworks at different times. In this paper, the experimental research method and the data analysis method were applied to analyze the samples generated by the AI creation tool "Midjourney" and test AI anxiety on the 27 artworks of 9 different art styles and 3 different types to investigate whether respondents are anxious about the development and changes of AI artworks in the present era. In this paper, whether respondents showed a significant difference in their anxiety about various art styles was discussed by taking the art style as the independent variable and AI anxiety as the dependent variable. Moreover, this paper analyzed and discussed the phenomenon that along with the continuous technological advance, AI artworks have gradually changed the cognition and emotion of the public through media dissemination and diffusion, with the objective of guiding the public to correctly understand the changes and development of AI art creation to alleviate the psychological anxiety among the public triggered by the AIdevelopment.