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Can artificial intelligence every really replace a human artist’s emotional authenticity?
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Hello and I hope this message finds everyone well.
As part of my Fine Art degree, and in connection with an installation I am researching art and its emotional authenticity, asking; Can artificial intelligence every really replace an artist’s emotional authenticity?
I would greatly appreciate any views, thoughts or considerations you have on the three questions (below).
1. How do you feel an absence of lived human experience affects the emotional depth of AI – created artworks?
2. How do you feel this shapes the perception of the artists emotional authenticity for the audience, or does the originality or ‘essence’ of the genuine human experience exist within the preset narrative of the data inputted to automate the image creation process?
3. What effects do you feel pre-programmed algorithms have on sanitising the unpredictability of the artists creative processes?
Many thanks. M.
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AI is profoundly unlikely to possess any of the qualities that are valued in paintings. Your last question doesn't make a great deal of sense - a pre-programmed algorithm doesn't sanitize unpredictability, it simply lacks individual creative process; thus, there's nothing to sanitize - any unpredictability in the outcome would be a matter of chance not of design through intent.
Your second question is something of a word salad....... and suffers from the same issue as the third; that without specific human involvement, no emotional authenticity can exist. To the extent that there is human involvement in the creation of "the preset narrative of the data inputted to automate the image creation process" (there has to be a simpler way of expressing that!), it is in the nature of a technological conjuring trick: it may be "clever", in itself, but presumably isn't if you know how to do it, but the point about any artwork is that it has to be created with the specific intention of creating it and using the most economical means to do that; technology is at its best and most valuable when it liberates the human imagination: AI supplants it.
And now I have a question: are you AI yourself?
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Hi Robert,
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my research questions and sorry you found them such a 'word salad', I found your comments interesting and I am looking forward to hearing the opinions of others.
In answer to your question. Am I AI?
Well I don't dream of electric sheep, and read a lot of Philip K. Dick
Once again. thank you for taking the time to respond
M
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Hi Peter,
I have just looked at your artwork, it is really inspiring and has a wonderful sense of energy and realness, especially your portraits which I love.
I'm not sure if your response was directed at my research questions or whether you believe that I am AI, but thankyou for taking the time to reply, I'm guessing you are not a fan of AI generated artwork.
I hope you have a good week
M.
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Interesting discussion, I think it’s quite easy to spot AI work though it can and does often look good it’s too good .
No brush marks, the paint or so call paint is to smooth and doesn’t blend like it would if done by a person.
I have like the look of some of the scenes but not the actual work itself, there is something missing, to me it lacks the mistakes or the oddity that a human being might add to there work.
No I don’t think AI can generate the emotions that go into a painting particularly if it of a person whom the artist knows well. I’m currently working on a painting of a landscape where I spent ten years doing conservation work, I can feel , place , smell and sense the place as I paint it , all artist will tell you that something of those d feeling go into the painting.
A I cannot mimic that as it would need the human eye, brain and emotions to understand what the feeling are , I’m sure it has its place but not in art . I suppose at some point people will start to buy it because it different and topical , another nail in the coffin of art as we know it , it would also make a lot of artist redundant.
I’m certainly not a fan as I think it poses a risk to mankind.
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It is an easy question to answer. AI will never replace an artist's authenticity. AI can never posses a soul. No matter how much data/algorithms you download into a program, AI will never have one. It is one of the facets of human existence that make each and every person on this planet a unique individual, whereas, AI is all the same.
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