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Don't ask if AI can make art – ask how AI can be art
AI needs artists, whether the industry thinks so or not.
In 2019, before the rise of ubiquitous generative AI, Frank Lantz’s party game Hey Robot provoked people to examine the interplay between voice assistants and their users, using the simple mechanic of coaxing Siri or Alexa to say a chosen word. And interactivity helps avoid the feeling of bland aimlessness that can easily define “AI art.” It draws an audience into the process of making choices, encouraging people to pull out individual pieces of a potentially huge body of work, looking for parts that interest them. Given the high-profile hostility between creatives and AI companies, it’s easy to forget that the recent history of machine-generated art is full of artists: people like Artbreeder creator Joel Simon, the comedians behind Botnik Studios, and the writer / programmers participating in the annual (and still ongoing) National Novel Generation Month.
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