Who Should Get The Credit For AI-Generated Artworks

"Anthropomorphising AI systems can undermine our ability to hold powerful individuals and groups accountable." Edmond De Belamy, a portrait generated by a machine learning (ML) algorithm was sold at Christie's art auction for $432,500; 40 times higher than the initial estimate of $10,000. The whole event was marketed by Christie's as ''the first portrait generated by an algorithm to come up for auction''. AI for art, especially generative adversarial networks (GANs) have come a long way since then. Christie's affair makes one wonder how good has AI become, but if one looks closely they might think otherwise.