Social media have recently been flooded with AI-generated content. Sometimes it is very easy to recognize, and sometimes you have to scrutinize the details, almost at the pixel level. Of course, not everyone cares about this, but I, like many others, am principled in this matter. I just don’t like to feel deceived. As a viewer, I am interested in someone else’s imagination, as an artist - someone else’s technique and skill. But how can something that was not created by human be interesting in the artistic sense?
Of course, there are many beautiful things in the world that appeared without human participation. Sunsets, flowers, seascapes and all nature in general are beautiful. But this begins to relate to art only as a result of creative reflection. A machine cannot perceive the world through the prism of aesthetic awareness. All that AI does is iteratively improve random information, noise, until it meets some formal criteria of “plausibility”. You can splash paint on a canvas, and