Byte The Dust

In an era where machines can imitate the finished products of human creativity, we are entering an ominous world in which we are forgetting what art is and who it's for. Without question, AI art is theft and not creative. Given that it relies on databases of stolen work, its “creativity” is contingent on the ingenuity of real artists. 

Obviously artists don’t operate in a vacuum, but what sets us apart is that we have free will, emotions, and can experience life as sentient beings. These are essential aspects for inspiration and new artistic movements. Regardless if we took the stolen work out of the equation or not, nothing new or creative would evolve out of AI because it doesn’t genuinely understand what it's being told to do.