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[globalnode]

art is essentially human, warts n all, how can something non-human make human art.

[tartoran → globalnode]

It can't, what it can do is mimic other human art and generate it 10000x faster.

[jfactorial → globalnode]

A brush makes human art

[red-iron-pine → jfactorial]

because its held by a human.

an autonomic system making inferences based on a dataset isn't capturing a feeling, it's just regurgitating a statistical average.

[jfactorial → red-iron-pine]

Generative AI is not autonomous, it's wielded by a user just as a brush is, prompted and tweaked by a human being, a new tool in the artist's tackle box, like acrylic paint, Photoshop, "content-aware fill" etc.