We value art both for itself and the human story behind it – think Beethoven’s deafness and Van Gogh’s madness. AI can only generate; it can never create.
AI and art Michaela Pollock
Artificial intelligence cannot create; it can only generate. It generates the product while bypassing the process. An artwork is both the art and the work. Consequential art is the product of labour – labour that can be intense and self-reflective or playful and intuitive.
The “value” of an artwork relies on the function of “quality” and “effort” required to produce it: V = f (Q,E).
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