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I think art is about us feeling elated because we think we see what the artist saw and thus feel we understand what the artist wants to share with us. If compu
by galaxyLogic 6y ago
I think art is about us feeling elated because we think we see what the artist saw and thus feel we understand what the artist wants to share with us.
If computer makes art it can be beautiful, and it can fool us into thinking we see what the artist is trying to say and feel that. But once we know the piece was generated by a computer that feeling goes away. It can still be beautiful like a landscape can be beautiful even though there was no artist creating it.
Think about "great" painters and their masterpieces which are highly appreciated. Then a forger comes a long and makes a copy. Is the copy also great art, or not? It is more or less an exact copy. But we don't consider it great art. Why? Because we know it is a forgery.
So "art" is much in the brain of the beholder.
- Hedepig 6y agoDoes that not depend upon the process in which the creator of such an AI goes through?
- galaxyLogic 6y agoI would tend to agree yes. The creator of the art-producing AI is much the creator. But not as much as if s/he would have created the art as such directly, because of indirection. The AI might produce billions of versions of the art which the human creating the AI has never seen or heard. It's maybe not too different from photography as art. The photographer takes many pictures then selects and edits them. it the act of intentionally conveying some "message" to the viewers that makes it art, in my view.