Where only planning drives the maker, the spontaneous, the unexpected is missing and the viewer feels neither surprise nor has many questions. A work that contains only the intentional can do little to surprise and irritate
This is an interesting insight. Just earlier I was watching this amazing video of a woman creating 5 pictures at the same time, drawing with both hands and both feet! You've probably seen it. But I questioned whether, at this point, it could even be considered art, instead maybe in the realm of 'craft'. She had mastered the ability to such an extent that I wonder if any creativity was left in her creations, or was it just routine, auto-pilot. And, does it even matter?
It at all seems to cycle back to this new-fangled Chat GPT which I have yet to try, but I've read about creations and I feel it's as transformative to the global society as something like smart phones and the internet, it's that terrifyingly powerful.
If we can get a bot to do what a lawyer, an author, a philosopher, a professor, a research paper, a student, can do in 3 seconds flat to a level almost indistinguishable from the person, where does that leave the human? A novelty on the planet?
At some point, we will be using AI ambassadors to engage with people, send out emails and legal documents, convictions of criminals and so forth, without any human involvement whatsoever. Students will graduate their entire course simply plugging in a dataset, and professors will upload into the AI bot for in-depth grading.
We might end up indeed trapped in a metaverse without even knowing it, where we spend our days appreciating art which was never made by a human, discussing it alongside avatars online with no human behind them while listening to music which no human had ever made or heard previously.
Is that an artistic space? Phew...