Is Artificial Intelligence the Death of Art?

[Vinther1991]

I think the idea that some have (also here), that you can separate art from the artistic process, is crazy. If I watch a Buster Keaton movie and he does a crazy stunt or there is a crazy shot, I get a sense of wonder of how the f... did he do that? If some made the same sequence today with AI I would feel completely indifferent. How can anyone pretend these have the same value, even if the resulting video clip is the same?

To me it is absolutely crucial that art is made by humans, it will always have to be to carry that value (I can accept art made by animals too, which I know is a thing, I feel I have more in common with them, than with AI), it is human communication, humans expressing something internal. If I read a book and thought it was incredible, and later find out it was made by AI, I would hate it and feel cheated. Because then it is not the reflection of a human, at best it is the work of thousands of actual people that has been stitched together in a way that they never intended.

I know new digital tools have emerged before, CGI for example, but even then it still required human craftmanship, it is a tool. Also you can almost always tell that it is CGI, even when made really well, so at least it is transparent. And even still, can we really say that the emergence of CGI hasn't also hurt art to some extend? Watch an action scene from a blockbuster from the 80s and compare it to an action scene in a contemporary blockbuster. I know which is more likely to wauw me.

Minimal use of AI can probably still be considered a tool, but it doesn't require much before it is the AI's voice we are hearing rather than the human's. The big tragedy to me is that from now on or very soon we can no longer tell if a piece of art is crafted by a human, and hence all new art will have to be viewed in the light that they might have been created by or with AI. There is hence art before the 2020's, which is just art, and then there is art after the 2020's, which I cannot say for sure if it is art or not.