Human Art Already Has So Much In Common With AI

Despite being human-made, human-taught, and human-promoted, it's easy to criticize AI for being fundamentally inhuman. To claim that AI models like ChatGPT and DALL-E will replace art created by people is to ignore both the ineffable qualities of the human touch and the critical flaws of these models--or so say the artists and writers. They're right that AI isn't quite at the stage of completely replacing human creativity--it is biased and inaccurate, good at bullshitting without substance. It offers a simulacrum of desired output but cannot be trusted on its own. But to home in on AI's failures underestimates the will of their developers to overcome them.