  The emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (G-AI) has changed the
landscape of creative arts with its power to compose novel artwork and thus
brought ethical concerns. Despite the efforts by prior works to address these
concerns from technical and societal perspectives, there exists little
discussion on this topic from an HCI point of view, considering the artists as
human factors. We sought to investigate the impact of G-AI on artists,
understanding the relationship between artists and G-AI, in order to motivate
the underlying HCI research. We conducted semi-structured interviews with
artists ($N=25$) from diverse artistic disciplines involved with G-AI in their
artistic creation. We found (1) a dilemma among the artists, (2) a disparity in
the understanding of G-AI between the artists and the AI developers(3) a
tendency to oppose G-AI among the artists. We discuss the future opportunities
of HCI research to tackle the problems identified from the interviews.
