Isabelle Levent

Our intuitive moral understanding of actors and transgressions may be at odds with the inherent complexity of AI systems.

“There are real concerns with respect to the copyright of outputs from these models and unaddressed rights issues with respect to the imagery, the image metadata and those individuals contained within the imagery,” said Peters.

Creativity is the ability to come up with ideas or artefacts that are  new ,  surprising , and  valuable . 

As part of this model where the ‘back-end’ gets more attention than the artefact, a systematic dismantling of the myth of ‘the artist’ as a stand-alone genius, standing above, or aside from the world, needs to be enacted.

Because creativity  by definition  involves not only novelty but value, and because values are highly variable, it follows that many arguments about creativity are rooted in disagreements about value. 

the reconfiguration of culture as a domain of not just human-made meanings but also machinic calculation

What’s difficult is to state our aesthetic values clearly enough to enable the program itself to make the evaluation at each generation.