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Re:AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the... by dagw on Thursday April 11, 2024 @06:38AM (#40000673)
I would consider that the whole act of making the a machine that can generate music and then making it generate a song of the MIT license could be considered 'art'. That doesn't make the end result 'art' in isolation art.

Like the banana. The bananas isn't art, taping a random banana to a random wall and eating a banana isn't art. A particular person taping a banana to a particular wall for a particular reason is what make the whole thing art.

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Re:AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the... by IanCal on Thursday April 11, 2024 @02:22PM (#40005193)
Why look at the end result in isolation? Isn't that just ignoring the human element then complaining there isn't one?
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Re:AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the... by dagw on Friday April 12, 2024 @05:14AM (#40010744)
Why look at the end result in isolation?

I definitely agree that you shouldn't. To me absolutist arguments about if AI-generated content is art or not makes no sense. AI is a tool, like for example carpentry, that can be used for many purposes. Most carpentry isn't art, it's craftsmen building useful things and solving practical problems. But there are definitely artists out there using carpentry as the medium in which they express their artistic intent.

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