Does generative AI art limit or unleash our creative potential as artists, as human beings? If you consider our relationship to the visual data of the historical corpus of human creativity, the ability to automate creativity does not remove a discerning aesthetic choice from the this process. If nothing else, the sheer volume and diversity of potential imagery requires that refine an even more skillfully-refined designer’s eye. It is just that now most of the hard graphical engineering is done for us by artificial intelligence.
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