I’m curious to understand why you think drawing photorealistic eyes is different from a person beating a Guitar Hero time record.
Both are pushing boundaries in mechanical dexterity. Yet one is considered art and another is not.
I’m curious to understand why you think drawing photorealistic eyes is different from a person beating a Guitar Hero time record.
Both are pushing boundaries in mechanical dexterity. Yet one is considered art and another is not.
If I was feeling unfair I would say there is no difference! However, if a friend drew me an eye on A3 paper would I frame it? Probably yes...
Others have said this better, but art is an qualitative/emotional thing, not a simply measurable quantity of an object. We tend to use the effort put in as a proxy measure for quality, but when photocopiers and 3D printers and - yes - genAI get involved, that becomes harder or impossible.
Beating Guitar Hero is emotional, but not artistic. Photorealistic drawings could be emotional, and may or may not be artistic. Putting a text prompt into a generative model to make a (frankly terrible) music video for $100 is ... something else.
Anything can be artistic, but some things are very hard to make artistic.
Beating Guitar Hero could artistic. I don't even know how, but I'm sure some artist could beat Guitar Hero in a way that was somehow artistic.
This terrible $100 music video which I'm not even going to watch, is surely not art. Also I'm totally sure some person is going to spend $100 with an AI and make art. It's very hard, but they day will come. The slop-to-art ratio will be astronomical.