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Great post. Art is a conscious act, and the picture or song or book or performance is merely the result of it. Machines can't act; they can only assemble what people have already made for them through acts of their own. AI is good at assembling, but that's all it can ever be good at.

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I agree.

Thanks for the note.

Appreciated.

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Your title question is also the answer. Yes, art is the result of being human and art itself confirms our humanity. Since the dawn of man, art has been within us and made by. Cave etchings and paintings show that we are creative, expressive creatures. AI will never be that.

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Absolutely correct.

Art needs humanity to be realized, and humanity is needed to create that art.

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Agree 100%. Humans take photos. AI needs those photos to stitch together something prompted to it and lives in an eyeless, cold, nano-world of ones and zeros.

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I agree Paul.

Thanks for the comment.

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Love it. The more we conflate AI illustration with photography, the worse off we will be. It is photorealistic illustration, end of story. No light, no photo.

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