拥抱奇异：将AI构筑为新型艺术画笔
作为一名艺术家，人工智能（Artificial Intelligence: 能够模拟人类智能执行创作与计算任务的计算系统）彻底重塑了我的人生轨迹。在许多人将目光局限于生产力与效率提升时，我却全神贯注于探索如何将AI融入我的艺术创作之中。对我而言，它不仅是一种工具，更像是一支全新的画笔、一块画布、一台相机、一间音乐工作室，以及一扇通往想象力深处的大门。我曾涉足电影制作、时尚行业，最近还担任过平面设计师，但没有任何事物能像AI一样点燃我如此强烈的探索欲。
起初，我生成的首批图像谈不上什么“远见卓识的艺术杰作”，正如朋友们调侃的那样，更像是令人困惑的“这是个啥？”然而，我选择主动拥抱并深入挖掘AI呈现出的那种怪诞特质（Strangeness），使其逐渐演变为我的标志性个人风格。如今，我感觉自己获得了一种全新的超能力，想象力成为唯一的创作边界，而这种想象力似乎正被源源不断的新灵感所激发。在人类创作历史上，想象与现实创作之间的距离首次被彻底弭平。
英文原文
As an artist, I want to tell you that AI has completely changed the trajectory of my life. Let me show you into some of my worlds. When some people were focused on productivity and efficiency, I'd been focused on trying to figure out how to incorporate AI into my art. Like a new paintbrush, a canvas, a camera, a music studio, a doorway into my imagination. I’ve worked in film production, fashion and most recently as a graphic designer. But nothing has sparked my curiosity like AI has.
My first images were less “visionary artist” and more, as my friends used to say, "What is that?" But I leaned into the strangeness of the AI, and now it has become my signature style. And I feel like I have a new superpower, and I'm only limited by my imagination, which seems to be endlessly fueled with ideas now. For the first time, the distance between what I imagined and what I could create has closed.
声画共振：跨模态协同与唱片合约突破
在视觉维度的探索取得进展后，AI生成视频（AI Video: 基于深度学习模型从文本或静态图像生成连续动态视频的技术）的出现为我带来了新的转折。我开始让静态的AI图像动起来，制作成实验短片。但在创作过程中，我始终觉得缺少了某种灵魂，于是渴望通过亲手制作音乐，来更精准地匹配视觉画面背后所承载的情感张力。
我开始自己撰写歌词，并借助AI在编曲与配器上展开协作。我的歌词灵感大多直接来源于自己生成的视觉意象或切身的人生经历。我从未料到自己的音乐作品会展现出如此独立的生命力——凭借这些作品，我在人生的这一篇章竟然斩获了一份唱片合约。当音乐的旋律与视觉画面达到极致的声画共振时，那种体验犹如纯粹的魔法。在作品《平静的反叛》（Quiet Rebellion）中，我写下了关于接纳真实自我、将独特与异质视作冠冕的歌词：
让节奏宽广，让逻辑稀薄。我栖身于秘密初生的缝隙。这是一场平静的反叛，一场轻柔的战役。世界将品尝到未曾体验的味道。褶皱中有火焰，奇异中显从容。我是纸上拒绝妥协的浓墨。
英文原文
Once AI video was available, I started animating my AI images and making short films. But I felt like something was missing. So I wanted to make my own music to better match the emotion behind my visuals. So I started writing lyrics and using AI to collaborate on the instrumentation. And I draw my inspiration for my lyrics from my visuals or from my life experiences. And I never thought that my music would take on a life of its own. But it has, as I just landed a record deal.
(Applause and Cheers) Thank you. That feels extraordinary at this chapter of my life. When the music and the visual align perfectly, it can feel like magic. In this next clip I'm going to show you, from my video "Quiet Rebellion", I wrote these lyrics about living as your authentic self and wearing your strange like a crown.
(Song) Let the rhythm be wide and the logic be thin. I'm living in the spaces where the secrets begin. It's a quiet rebellion, a soft kind of war. There'll be somethin' the world hasn't tasted before. There is a fire in the fold, a grace in the strange. I am ink on the page that refuses to change. (Cheers and Applause) Thank you. Thank you.
解构创作伦理：从提示词微调到审美驯化
伴随作品的传播，公众最常抛出两个核心疑问：**这真的是艺术吗？以及你究竟是如何做到的？**针对第一个问题，由于AI艺术仍处于诞生初期，全社会仍在探寻它确切的文化生态定位，双方面临着激烈的情感碰撞与伦理探讨，尤其是关于模型抓取艺术家过往作品进行训练的争议——正如我作为艺术专业学生时所接受的传统训练一样。
但在实际坐下来创作时，我的屏幕上并不存在其他艺术家的作品。我的参考源于大自然中的花卉、昆虫、图案肌理、时尚设计，或是脑海中闪烁的奇异幻象。对我而言，艺术是极其私人化的表达，我只专注于创造能带给自己快乐的事物；若它恰好也能打动他人，或许艺术的定义本就蕴含其中。
关于创作方法，以 Midjourney 的实际应用为例：
- 输入标准通用提示词（Prompt）：“集市中的童话角色，施了魔法且具有电影感”，生成的往往是一张平淡无奇、充满典型AI流水线质感的常规图像。
- 引入个性化代码（Personalization Code）与风格参考代码（Style Reference Code）后，同样一段提示词便能呈现出截然不同的美学质感。这背后依赖的是大量反复试错的时间沉淀，不断用我个人的美学风格来驯化和调优AI。
由此生成的影像片段不仅具有视觉深度，更与叙事高度契合：
欢迎来到没有明码标价的集市。你交易时间，你典当姓名，你只能报以苦笑。摊位由未知搭建，纸牌写满“你终会明了”。你购买梦想，买一份希望，再附赠一丝意料之外。
英文原文
Lately, people have been asking me these same two questions: Is it really art and how do you do it? And this first one's really hard for me to answer, because AI art is brand new, and we're all still trying to figure out where it fits in. And there [are] intense feelings on both sides, and lots of discussion about AI being trained on other artists’ work -- as I was as an art major. But when I sit down to create, there's no other artists' work on my screen. I use references from things in nature, like flowers or insects, patterns, fashion, or whimsical ideas that have been floating around in my head. For me, art is personal. I just want to make things that bring me joy. And if they do the same to someone else, well, maybe that's the definition right there.
And how do you do it? Let me take you behind the scenes for a moment. This image was made in Midjourney using this prompt, "A character in a fairy tale scene in a marketplace, enchanted and cinematic." And it's an OK image. Very AI, nothing at all special. Now here's that exact same prompt using my personalization code and the style reference code. And I've worked really hard to get my images to look like this. A lot of trial and error and time spent training the AI on my personal style and aesthetic. Now, here's a short clip of the final video.
(Song) Welcome to the marketplace where nothing's ever priced the same. You trade your time, you trade your name, you have to laugh. The stalls are built from maybe-so, the cards all say "you'll know, you'll know". You buy a dream, it's buy-one-hope and something extra. (Applause and Cheers) Thank you.
人类意图注入：迈向全民创造力复兴
当AI技术被人类的真实情感、同理心与明确意图所指引时，它便能彻底蜕变为某种全新的存在。创造力本身无法用条理化公式解释，你唯一能做的就是跟从它的指引。自从将AI确立为我的共创伙伴（Co-creator: 人机协作中提供即时生成与发散支持的智能系统）以来，我创作出了人生中最出色的作品，整个人生宛如火箭般腾飞，数百万观众通过社交网络与音乐平台接触到我的创作。我的心境变得更加轻盈，对世界重燃好奇，能够运用技术去讲述贴近心灵的故事。
正如我向老一辈致敬的作品所传达的：不要丢失探索的惊奇感。
焦躁的追逐早已随风飘散，不再为虚浮的名利竞逐。如今我们细品晨曦的轻叹，在沧桑的双眸中照见崭新的奇迹。
我们此刻正站在一场新艺术复兴（Renaissance: 创造力在技术驱动下的大规模觉醒与繁荣）的起点，未来的可能性无穷无尽。人类远未穷尽AI在艺术创作上的潜力；更令人振奋的是，那些一生中从未自诩具有艺术天分的人，正通过尝试AI首次点燃了内心的创造力火花。如果你对AI充满好奇，不妨卸下包袱去玩耍、去探索，创造出美丽或怪诞的事物，允许自己被最终的成果所惊艳——最重要的是，在其中找寻属于你自己的快乐。
我从未找到学跳舞的缘由。双脚与旋律自然相遇，第一眼便彼此心领神会。从我学会迈步的那一刻起，脚步便飞奔向前。听见旋律，我便看见了舞池，我的双脚早已懂得一切。
英文原文
When AI is guided by human feeling, empathy and intention, it could become something else entirely. You can't explain creativity. You just follow it. But this is what I do know. I started making the best work of my life since I started using AI as a cocreator, and my life has taken off like a rocket ship. Millions of people have found their way to my work through my social sites and music apps. And I feel different, I feel lighter, I feel curious again, and I love using this technology to tell stories that are close to my heart.
This next clip is a tribute to older generations and not losing your sense of wonder. (Music) (Laughter) (Song) The restless chase has drifted by, no longer racing for the prize. Now we savor morning's sigh and see new wonder in old eyes. (Applause) Thank you.
I feel like we're standing at the beginning of a renaissance, and the possibilities are endless. We haven't even tapped into all of the ways to use AI creatively. And people who have never felt creative a day in their life are trying AI and sparking that creativity for the first time. And that's incredible. So my takeaway for today is if you are curious about AI, try to play a little and make something beautiful or make something strange, but let yourself be surprised by what comes out. But most of all, find your joy.
(Song) I never found a reason why I had to learn to dance. My feet and music found each other. We knew it at first glance. From the moment I could walk my feet just up and ran. When I hear a song, I see a floor, my feet just understand. Thank you so much. Thank you. (Applause and Cheers)