I mean, that’s certainly your interpretation. An incorrect one, in my opinion, but nevertheless, you’re entitled to it.
More importantly, it’s completely beside the point of what I was trying to communicate and has very little relevance to the actual discussion.
It doesn’t matter who creates the media, so long as the result is novel. If I ask an LLM to generate an image of a flower, and that image has never existed before, then it is, by definition, something new. You are perfectly entitled to refuse to call it art. That’s your prerogative. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and art is ultimately a subjective designation. I can call something art just as easily as you can refuse to.
And, unfortunately, for both of us, what either of us personally considers art has absolutely no bearing on the novelty, existence, or validity of the resulting creation. Our personal opinions on the matter are entirely irrelevant to those questions.
I mean, that’s certainly your interpretation. An incorrect one, in my opinion, but nevertheless, you’re entitled to it.
More importantly, it’s completely beside the point of what I was trying to communicate and has very little relevance to the actual discussion.
It doesn’t matter who creates the media, so long as the result is novel. If I ask an LLM to generate an image of a flower, and that image has never existed before, then it is, by definition, something new. You are perfectly entitled to refuse to call it art. That’s your prerogative. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and art is ultimately a subjective designation. I can call something art just as easily as you can refuse to.
And, unfortunately, for both of us, what either of us personally considers art has absolutely no bearing on the novelty, existence, or validity of the resulting creation. Our personal opinions on the matter are entirely irrelevant to those questions.