A.I. Art
A.I. generated art is beautiful and awe inspiring. However, I do not agree that it should be held to the same degree of amazement as the works of a human being. When a masterful A.I. generates a new work, it is always unique and intriguing, but it will never be anything original. It is always a compilation of the works of other humans in one form or another.
As it is traditionally held, true mastery in a medium comes from the ability to reproduce one's work time and again. Human artists work time and time again to perfect their craft and their unique voice which they speak through their chosen medium, we held the greats as such because they are the ones able to reach that place of honesty and grandeur consistently, though obviously not every time because yet another saying goes, “to ere is human.”
Nature is beautiful to us because of the randomly created senses of patterns that we find and the way those play among the chaos and I see A.I. art as the same thing. With infinite resources to work with as many atoms or pixels as can be found, something new comes along that is always unique and worth admiring for what it is because it will never exist again in the same way. The human element is the magnificent and ethereal ability to create something entirely new.
An A.I. can create beautiful works like Picasso, but no matter how many times a prompt is run, it can never create the next Picasso, only mimic the greats that have come before. It can add new themes to it, but even these are taken from other artists' past work. Yes, all artists have taken inspiration from the work of others, but the reason the true greatest of our species will always be remembered as long as there is someone around to speak their names is because they did what a computer could never do- they created something new that was unlike anything that had ever existed.
I have never much agreed with the hypothetical situation that if you put enough monkeys into a room together with a typewriter and waited long enough, they would produce Shakespeare, but it does illustrate my point perfectly. Even if they did recreate Shakespeare, they would never be the man with the honest intention that birthed those ideas, or for that matter created new words for our language that we still carry with us today. As is often said in the realm of actors “intention is everything,” and the only intention an A.I. can have, is the one they are told to have.