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March 20, 2025 · Hong Kong

AI Art vs Human Art

Exploring how traditional artists incorporate AI, comparing human‑created and AI‑enhanced works, and sharing hands‑on student projects that blend both approaches.

Overview
Tech stack
  • Canva
    Canva is the leading visual communication platform: a drag-and-drop design tool for creating anything from social media graphics to professional presentations.
    Canva is the global visual communication platform, launched in 2013 by founders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht: it democratizes design. The platform leverages a drag-and-drop interface and an extensive template library, enabling over 220 million monthly active users to create high-impact visuals without specialized training. Users produce everything from social media posts and presentations to websites and videos, utilizing features like Magic Write (AI-powered copywriting) and the comprehensive Brand Kit (for Enterprise clients). This efficient, freemium model positions Canva as the essential tool for rapid, on-brand content creation across all business functions.
  • Suno
    Suno is a generative AI platform: it creates full, professional-quality songs—complete with vocals, instrumentation, and lyrics—from a simple text prompt.
    Suno is a leading generative AI music creation platform, developed by Suno, Inc., out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The core function is simple: users input a text prompt, and the system generates a complete, realistic song, including vocals and instrumentation, often in under a minute. Since its wide release in December 2023 and a partnership with Microsoft Copilot, the platform has rapidly evolved, with the latest V4 model (November 2024) capable of producing full four-minute tracks. The technology democratizes music production, allowing anyone to create commercial-quality pop, electronic, or blues tracks without any musical expertise.
  • LLM
    Large Language Models (LLMs) are deep learning models, built on the Transformer architecture, that process and generate human-quality text and code at scale.
    LLMs are a class of foundation models: massive, pre-trained neural networks (often with billions to trillions of parameters) that leverage the self-attention mechanism of the Transformer architecture (introduced in 2017) to predict the next token in a sequence. Trained on vast datasets (e.g., Common Crawl's 50 billion+ web pages), these models—like GPT-4, Gemini, and Claude—acquire predictive power over syntax and semantics. They function as general-purpose sequence models, enabling critical applications such as complex content generation, language translation, and automated code completion (e.g., GitHub Copilot). Their core value: generalizing across diverse tasks with minimal task-specific fine-tuning.
  • Diffusion models
    Generative AI models that synthesize high-fidelity data (e.g., images, audio) by learning to iteratively reverse a fixed, step-by-step noise addition process.
    Diffusion models operate on a two-part mechanism: a forward diffusion process and a reverse sampling process. The forward process systematically corrupts training data—like a clean image—by adding Gaussian noise over hundreds or thousands of steps until only pure noise remains. The model then trains a neural network, typically a U-Net, to master the reverse process: iteratively predicting and removing that noise to reconstruct the original data distribution. This denoising capability, starting from a random noise seed, allows for the generation of entirely new, high-quality samples. Key commercial examples, like OpenAI's DALL-E 2 and Stability AI's Stable Diffusion, leverage this core technology for state-of-the-art text-to-image synthesis.
  • CapCut
    The free, all-in-one video editor from ByteDance: designed for high-quality, short-form content creation across mobile, desktop, and web.
    CapCut is a powerful, accessible video editing platform developed by ByteDance (TikTok's parent company). It offers a user-friendly interface for creators at all skill levels, boasting over a billion downloads on the Google Play store. The technology provides a comprehensive suite of features: standard editing (trim, merge, speed control), advanced tools (keyframe animation, chroma key, optical flow slow-motion), and AI capabilities (auto captions, text-to-speech, background removal). It is optimized for rapid production and one-click sharing to platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels, allowing users to export high-resolution videos up to 4K HDR.

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