Can AI generated art be considered real art?
In the world where AI art generators are taking the world by storm, artist fraternity wonder if it should count as art at all. The technology is evolving but cannot be perfect, which means there are flaws to consider alongside the incredible artwork a good artificial intelligence can produce.
Let us explore the meaning of the word, Merriam-Webster’s definition states that “art” stems from the Latin word “ars”, which means, among other things, acquired skill, craftsmanship, and artistic achievement.
With the advent of the technology companies like OpenAI and its Dall-E program are in the race of pushing the boundaries of digital art. But the fact that cannot be denied upon is that Artificial Intelligence lacks emotions that fuel art. Art is classed as the product of imagination, skill, experience, and emotion, usually meant to represent something and for the public to enjoy.
Also, AI is not original as the AI generators use pre-existing images and often merge them to illustrate a requested subject, concept, artistic form, and so on.
There is big question about copyright too since AI art involves a program mimicking the work of existing artists to create a new piece as per the request of a human, but who didn’t use that all-important emotive creativity.
So, the debate is who has made the artwork, the machine or its user?