Is AI output art?

[Teletubby 134,328]

Hozier doesn't think it's art, Grimes says AI output is art and what do you think??

[Auther 22,080]

It's technology, and very impressive, but not art - to me, anyway.

[Reality 71,865]

My gut instinct is to say no because, like Hozier said, I think art is based on the human experience. It's the expression of human experience via creative outlet. 

But also, does art need to have a technical component too? For example, when you go to a contemporary art museum and see a bunch of scribbles on a canvas, is that considered art? Because I've always believed it was, but not everyone feels that way. Some people think technical ability is what determines art. But then what about young children drawing pictures in art class? Is that not art because they may not be "techncially" good drawings? And what if AI manages to paint something that is "technically" good? For all intents and purposes, the product looks good and is indistinguishable from what a human artist could create. So is that art now?

It's an interesting question that I don't think necessarily has a right or wrong answer because everyone has their own definition of what "art" is. Art is purely subjective and even between human artists, people manage to argue about what is considered "art" or not. 

[Ultimecia 6,025]

**** no.

[RahrahWitch 6,948]

Defining Art is tricky, It's different for different people. Personally no I don't consider AI output as art.

AI could be considered art but it's also important to know that it doesn't create in the same way humans do. It's not as intelligent as AI enthusiasts like grimes would like you to believe, It finds trends among millions of actual artists work to produce something, It's not thinking about arrangements or art fundamentals It's entirely reliant on the millions of people it steals from. Remove that data and it's not creating anything.

[Werewoof 2,374]

I trust Hozier’s opinion on most things in life so I’m going to go with no 

[Pablo 7,308]

No, it takes from existing art and photographs to "create." Hopefully the tech bros stop trying to play it off as art. We need every AI made image to be clearly marked as made by AI

[nATAH 42,271]

absolutely not

[Chlorine 47,975]

The way it’s currently used is too straightforward and just regurgitating other people’s work and style. You’d have to start with that as the baseline and push it to an extreme to make a commentary or recontextualization. 

[skedaddleBItCh 2,768]

Just no, not with how some use it

[RebeldeFaith 4,555]

No.

[RudraCNG 14,285]

Ofc not

[PunkTheFunk 123,480]

You can't spell Artificial without Art

[nATAH 42,271]

3 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

You can't spell Artificial without Art

or fart

[hieronymus 9,671]

2 hours ago, Reality said:

My gut instinct is to say no because, like Hozier said, I think art is based on the human experience. It's the expression of human experience via creative outlet. 

But also, does art need to have a technical component too? For example, when you go to a contemporary art museum and see a bunch of scribbles on a canvas, is that considered art? Because I've always believed it was, but not everyone feels that way. Some people think technical ability is what determines art. But then what about young children drawing pictures in art class? Is that not art because they may not be "techncially" good drawings? And what if AI manages to paint something that is "technically" good? For all intents and purposes, the product looks good and is indistinguishable from what a human artist could create. So is that art now?

It's an interesting question that I don't think necessarily has a right or wrong answer because everyone has their own definition of what "art" is. Art is purely subjective and even between human artists, people manage to argue about what is considered "art" or not. 

I mean you can only sort of make an argument that ai-generation is a medium for creating art, as much as it pains me to say that. one of the defining characteristics of art is the intention of the artist. that's what separates literal random scribbles when your pen doesn't work from what people call random scribbles in an art gallery or a pile of bricks in an exhibition from the construction site down the street.

but on the other side... there's no creation involved on the part of the person putting in the prompts for the ai generator. you could say there's a skill to delivering the correct prompts to manipulate it to potentionally give it what you want, but the person is completely at the mercy of what the ai-generator can string together from other sources.