Pancasila in the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Art World

By Silvana L M Sinaga

01 Apr 2026 09:02 WIB 01 April 2026 09:02 WIB 4 minutes reading time: 4 minutes 3 read

AI in art needs to be supervised to be in harmony with Pancasila. Innovation must be fair, respect copyright, and protect artists from the negative impacts of AI.

Eksplorasi peran Pancasila dalam menimbang etika penggunaan kecerdasan buatan di ranah seni. (Source: AI Gemini, Redaksi Literasi Hukum Indonesia)

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Legal Literacy - The development of science and technology today certainly makes everyday life much easier. What used to be only radio and television for getting news has now developed into various platforms for disseminating information. This is certainly beneficial for the community to keep monitoring the surrounding situation without having to go directly to the field. However, the development of science and technology is not entirely safe if used carelessly. More and more people are misusing the internet for their own interests, which harms other people.

Like one of the results of the development of science and technology that has been widely used in recent years, namely Artificial Intelligence or abbreviated as AI. AI, or artificial intelligence, is a technology designed to mimic human thinking abilities in processing data. AI first appeared in 1950, when Alan Turing published the paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” which introduced the Turing Test to test whether machines can mimic human thinking.

This developed slowly until the first AI used by many people appeared, namely Siri from Apple. Then followed by the emergence of Google Assistant, until ChatGPT was released and exploded in 2023. The use of AI at that time was still with the aim of making it easier to process data quickly. But of course this will not be separated from bad intentions. For example, when students do assignments from school and instead use AI to do their assignments, even though it has been explained at school. This makes the student increasingly lazy to think and learn with their own abilities and rely on AI.

The negative impact of AI not only affects students, but also workers, for example artists. Recently, many applications with the AI concept have offered to create images based on text or prompts. The interests of each person who uses it are different, some are to make it easier to edit photos or draw illustrations. There are also those who create images to make logos, posters, colored images, or others.

With the increasing sophistication of AI, many companies prefer to use AI to be faster and cheaper than recruiting or paying illustrators. Of course, this is detrimental to artists who have ideas, creativity and spend time on these ideas. It's not just about money, but how the ideas and soul that are scribbled into the work cannot be the same as what is created by AI. It is also not uncommon for AI creations to simply be remakes of existing works. Here, originality is definitely questionable, and copyright is no longer protected.