>there is, of course, the technical aspect: the blurred edges, the repeated elements, the relative placement of things and unrelated objects, a kind of statistical uniformity/ non uniformity. this is technical aspect which shows they were generated by machine and a particular implementation of neutral networks/ai.
I agree there is a specific signature to this algorithmically generated art that becomes recognizable after you've seen enough of it, but these elements have also been purposely employed by human artists for years, they don't objectively prove something was machine generated.
If you didn't know what to look for, you would probably assume “an abstract painting of a planet ruled by little castles” was done by an artist on a digital canvas. And I could absolutely see “The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot” as an album cover.
>but then there's also the intentlessness that is symptomatic of a lot of modern art, and symptomatic of why a lot of people don't like modern art.
I think you're inadvertently proving my point. AI generated works feel empty and intentless not simply because of their repetition or arrangement but because they resemble modern art, which despite being created by humans is interpreted by many people as empty and intentless. This interpretation isn't a rejection of machine-generated art so much as a rejection of the aesthetics of human postmodernism.
I agree there is a specific signature to this algorithmically generated art that becomes recognizable after you've seen enough of it, but these elements have also been purposely employed by human artists for years, they don't objectively prove something was machine generated.
If you didn't know what to look for, you would probably assume “an abstract painting of a planet ruled by little castles” was done by an artist on a digital canvas. And I could absolutely see “The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot” as an album cover.
>but then there's also the intentlessness that is symptomatic of a lot of modern art, and symptomatic of why a lot of people don't like modern art.
I think you're inadvertently proving my point. AI generated works feel empty and intentless not simply because of their repetition or arrangement but because they resemble modern art, which despite being created by humans is interpreted by many people as empty and intentless. This interpretation isn't a rejection of machine-generated art so much as a rejection of the aesthetics of human postmodernism.