I’ve lost follower acquaintances for saying this, so I’m saying it again: If you think that Statistical Nonsense Machines (wrong terms “AI” or “ML”) make art, you don’t have a clue what art is.

No, really. Go study it.

Art is sociological artifact. Remove the cognition to create interpreted intent in relation to the sign and signified, and the concept of “art” is removed.

Literally *not* art.

@troy_s here is a brief thought experiment. say someone commissions a painting. the customer is very very specific about what they want it to depict -- objects, their relation to each other, poses, gestures, facial expressions, whatever.

from this description, two paintings are made, one by a human and another by typing the description into one of these programs. is one of these products art, and the other something else?