AI Art Is Uninteresting
The other day I read a post from someone that read something like "Art is valuable because not everyone can do it" and it rubbed me the wrong way. It gets at something that is true, that art is made more valuable by the pure fact that not everyone is capable of producing art but that's an argument of scarcity, a very economically minded argument. If everyone on earth was capable of producing high quality art, would art cease to have any value? I don't believe that it would. And I don't think that the ability to create art is a rare gift bestowed upon a chosen few, true mastery does take years of honing a craft but you don't have to paint a masterpiece just to make art. This all was in response to some cope post by an AI artist. I don't think the word artist even applies here, if I have a chair making machine that makes any chair that I tell it to make, I do not become a chair maker, I become the user of a chair making machine. But let me not get into t...
