This is one of the best articles I’ve encountered in the current AI discourse.

The article reads 21st-century debates over AI art through the lens of the long 19th-century debate about the creative status of photography. The author doesn’t anachronistically conflate the two moments, but draws useful parallels—the piece is a model of how media histories can inform our responses to contemporary media shift.

I also like how the article reframes key aspects of the AI debate, noting how worries expressed as about automation—“will AI take over X job?”—are perhaps proxies for anxiety over lost worker protections.

“An understanding of the technology as one that separates human from machine into distinct categories leaves little room for the messier ways we often fit together with our tools.”

https://www.noemamag.com/what-is-ai-doing-to-art/