Why Pay Attention To The Output Of Statistical Machines?

I believe art can be understood as anything made special. When I ask Claude to write me a poem, or stable diffusion to conjecture me an image, or suno, a song, I'm putting the art in "AI-generated art." And in general, the humans are the ones making it special. Making, or intent. In order for a thing to be made special necessarily implies there is a subject doing the making. Consider the classic example of the broom propped up by a cleaner in the MOMA. Done deliberately, this is art, a statement. Accidentally, and it's merely a mistake. Even though it's the same broom, same artist, same place. When we generate AI art, we're distilling that intent into its purest form. We give prompts, and then we gradually prune, and prod, and perfect, until this statistical machine gives us a combination we're happy with. Special, or perhaps effort. There's something excessive about art – that it didn't need to be that way. Creating art is not abjectly utilitarian. It's not the most direct path in ser

I believe art can be understood as anything made special. When I ask Claude to write me a poem, or stable diffusion to conjecture me an image, or suno, a song, I'm putting the art in "AI-generated art." And in general, the humans are the ones making it special. Making, or intent. In order for a thing to be made special necessarily implies there is a subject doing the making. Consider the classic example of the broom propped up by a cleaner in the MOMA. Done deliberately, this is art, a statement. Accidentally, and it's merely a mistake. Even though it's the same broom, same artist, same place.