AI-Generated Imagery: A New Era for the `Readymade'

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06033v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 09:25:56 GMT
• Title: AI-Generated Imagery: A New Era for the `Readymade'
• Authors: Amy Smith and Michael Cook
• Abstract summary: This paper aims to examine how digital images produced by generative AI systems have come to be so regularly referred to as art. We employ existing philosophical frameworks and theories of language to suggest that some AI-generated imagery can be presented as readymades' for consideration as art.
• Score: 0.7386189738262202
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: While the term `art' defies any concrete definition, this paper aims to examine how digital images produced by generative AI systems, such as Midjourney, have come to be so regularly referred to as such. The discourse around the classification of AI-generated imagery as art is currently somewhat homogeneous, lacking the more nuanced aspects that would apply to more traditional modes of artistic media production. This paper aims to bring important philosophical considerations to the surface of the discussion around AI-generated imagery in the context of art. We employ existing philosophical frameworks and theories of language to suggest that some AI-generated imagery, by virtue of its visual properties within these frameworks, can be presented as `readymades' for consideration as art.

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