"Technically impressive and beautiful" is a very narrow and poor definition of art, because a lot of art is neither. Example: Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

"Technically impressive and beautiful" is a very narrow and poor definition of art, because a lot of art is neither. Example: Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division. Certainly not a beautiful nature scene, and recorded when the band were more or less musically illiterate and almost technically illiterate too. But still considered a breakthrough post-punk album and hugely significant to their fans. It would be more accurate to compare AI generated landscapes with - say - Van Gogh. Here's an AI: https://superrare.com/artwork/ai-landscape-1868 https://superrare.com/artwork/ai-landscape-1868 Here's a Van Gogh: https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Vincent_van_Gogh_-_Landscape_from_Saint-R%C3%A9my_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Vincent_van_Gogh_-_... The AI image is pretty, but it's also pretty by the numbers. It's not doing anything surprising or original. The Van Gogh is weird. There's a tilted horizon, everything is moving in a slightly unsettling way, and the colours accurately mimic the bleached-out feel of a bright summer day. The result is poetically distorted but also unstable and slightly ominous. The instability became more and more obvious in the later paintings, until eventually you get The Starry Night, which looks almost nothing like a photo of a real night scene and everything like an almost hysterically poetic view of the night sky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night#/media/File:Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night#/media/File:V... Most artists can't do this. There's a nice library of standard distortion techniques these artists use to look "arty" without any deeper metaphorical or subjective expression and AI will probably put them out of work. But it's clearly wrong to suggest that AI can feel, communicate, and invent an intense and original subjectivity in the way the best artists do. It's a lot like CGI in movies. It's often spectacular, but compared to going to see a play with good real actors and maybe a few stage effects it doesn't engage the imagination with anything like the same skill and intensity.