Originally Posted by Tuco
Originally Posted by The Red Queen
I’m no expert in aesthetics, but I do know that one of the big bones of contention in that subject is how much, if anything, authorial intent has to do with something being art. If authorial intent isn’t essential then there doesn’t seem any in principle reason why AIs shouldn’t create art, but if it is then unless and until AI develops the ability to have intentions, humans might be able to use AI as a tool to create art but AI wouldn’t be able to create art spontaneously.
The big problem of arguing this angle is that at the end of the day what constitutes "actual, genuine, real, human art" is relevant only for a minuscule fraction of the people who will make use of these tools.
And it will matter less and less as they will improve over time and people will need to be warned upfront about what's genuine and what not.

A lot of people will be perfectly fine with "Sure, let's say this isn't real art. Still serves perfectly well any purpose I needed this image for".

Sure, folk might often just want a picture and not care whether it’s art, and use AI for that purpose. But the specific suggestion I was discussing there was that AI can create art, and I don’t see why the fact many people may not care about the answer is a “big problem” for the validity of any argument one way or the other. Though I guess it is an argument for the discussion not being of wide interest and relevance, outside of folks like me who get their kicks from musing over this kind of stuff grin. So given the the topic of the thread isn’t the nature of art and whether AI can create it, I will at least not take us further off piste into that topic here.


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