The artifact isn't the art: Rethinking creativity in the age of AI
People keep asking me about AI and I really think how you feel about AI comes down to whether you believe art is about producing things (images, objects, data files, “content”) or about a way of operating in the world as an intellectual, spiritual, and emotional creature.
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But it’s not the image that you see,” Shan continues. “It’s the human emotion. It’s the feeling evoked in the audience.”
When I think about art and its relationship with generative AI, I find myself caught in a loop. If art is the human idea, then wouldn’t a human, typing a prompt into something like Midjourney, count as the human effort within the
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