Artists usually take a more interesting approach, as they consciously use AI systems:

→ Consciously use AI systems to play with the variable abstraction of authorship vis-à-vis technology

→ Explore the notions of agency and learning in the creative process

→ Accentuate the uncanny appearance of artificial entities.

The media and some art institutions try to sensationalize AI art by de-emphasizing human agency in the creative process, and by presenting the AI “algorithms” as artists. They disregard well-informed notions about the complexity of the relationship between authorship and technology.

Computers, robots or algorithms are not artists because they do not embody human cognitive capabilities, skills and—most importantly—human motivations for making art.

Namely, the poetic qualities of human-made artefacts are inherently instrumentalizable as virtue signaling means to impress, stand out, assert oneself, and move forward in sexual competition and social hierarchy.