This is a strange article because the strongest counterpoint to its own argument: > The AI can make art. I’ve seen people dispute this, since what the AI makes

This is a strange article because the strongest counterpoint to its own argument: > The AI can make art. I’ve seen people dispute this, since what the AI makes by definition may not be art, under at least certain definitions. I think those definitions are stupid though, and will elect to ignore them. is in the article itself: > Art, at its core, is an attempt at expression and evocation. It’s a way of talking about things that are hard to put into words, a way of making arguments that don’t have their own formal logic, a way of connecting with others, of sharing. Some people paint or write because it’s a way of letting something out of themselves, of working through thoughts or trauma, or spending some time feeling some particular emotion or working on a thought... > Art is a communicative act. It’s a conversation. You see a picture and it makes you feel a certain way, and yes, sometimes you silently process that art, but most of my favorite aspects of art as discussing it with other people, wrestling with the art in public, teasing out what it’s trying to do, or what it’s doing without trying. I generally think that this is one of the best parts of being an author or an artist, this very public back and forth, sometimes with the art having to defend itself as the critic shadow-boxes... Sooner or later, a general artificial intelligence will create art and it will be a crisis for human artists. That's not today. DALL-E is not trying to make an argument, work through some trauma, or share a particular emotion, when it turns your text query into a feature vector into a JPG... I recently attended a talk by Aaron Hertzmann who compared the rise of AI-assisted art to the invention of the camera. Yes, some types of art will stop being commercially viable---stock images of D&D characters, to take the article's example---just as photorealistic portraits stopped being viable in the age of photography. But art as a social act of communication is alive and well...