I think the results of both the AI art and AI poetry surveys might be getting read backwards, and that most people think most artists and poets are making garbage, and so are easily able to believe that humans are making the garbage that is coming out of an AI; educated / erudite commenters who are pointing out that it's of course so obvious that x thing is made by a human are just familiar with that kind of art's contemporary conventions and really aren't any better able to identify what will be long-term valuable to human culture than any random person. Maybe.
There are *many* things to take away from the ACX test and all the articles/thinkpieces it's spawned, but the one to occurs to me is that a lot of the anti-AI people are severely underrating JPEGs - a lot of artists' aims are better served by computer files than physical canvases. Collectors' aims, not so much. ("Collectors" in this case meaning "money launderers who moonlight as aesthetes," because pretty much anyone can make a collection of digital art by right-clicking.)
I think the results of both the AI art and AI poetry surveys might be getting read backwards, and that most people think most artists and poets are making garbage, and so are easily able to believe that humans are making the garbage that is coming out of an AI; educated / erudite commenters who are pointing out that it's of course so obvious that x thing is made by a human are just familiar with that kind of art's contemporary conventions and really aren't any better able to identify what will be long-term valuable to human culture than any random person. Maybe.
There are *many* things to take away from the ACX test and all the articles/thinkpieces it's spawned, but the one to occurs to me is that a lot of the anti-AI people are severely underrating JPEGs - a lot of artists' aims are better served by computer files than physical canvases. Collectors' aims, not so much. ("Collectors" in this case meaning "money launderers who moonlight as aesthetes," because pretty much anyone can make a collection of digital art by right-clicking.)