The work of art in the age of AI reproducibility

IF 4.7 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI & Society Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI:10.1007/s00146-024-01991-3

Misha Rabinovich, Caitlin Foley

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Walter Benjamin wrote his prophetic essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” almost a century ago, yet it is still pertinent today. Benjamin warned that as art becomes devoid of aura through reproduction, less attention is needed to engage with it. What role does aura play in AI-generated work? Despite recent advances in AI it produces “artwork” that for the most part operates as entertainment. It can’t produce work that has grown out of reckoning with culture the way artists do in their efforts to provide space for grappling with deep questions that ultimately inform culture. Nevertheless, AI is potentially more disruptive to Art than to any other field. If AI becomes the dominant producer of art, this could lead to a sort of consensus trance with a generation of people consuming “art” that does not inspire questioning and new understandings of the world we live in. For centuries, the term “computer” referred to living, breathing humans. Today, no person can claim the title. Is this the fate of “artist”? By problematizing the ways we use AI, artists can help address the problem of how we as a culture should engage with it.

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人工智能可复制时代的艺术作品

沃尔特·本雅明（Walter Benjamin）在近一个世纪前写下了他的预言性文章《机械复制时代的艺术作品》（The Work of Art in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction），但它在今天仍然具有现实意义。本雅明警告说，当艺术通过复制而失去光环时，就不需要关注它了。光环在人工智能生成的工作中扮演什么角色？尽管人工智能最近取得了进步，但它生产的“艺术品”在很大程度上是作为娱乐来运作的。它不能像艺术家那样，努力为解决最终影响文化的深层次问题提供空间，从而产生出脱离文化清算的作品。然而，人工智能对艺术的潜在颠覆性要大于其他任何领域。如果人工智能成为艺术的主要生产者，这可能会导致一代人在消费“艺术”时产生某种共识恍惚，而这不会激发人们对我们所生活的世界的质疑和新理解。几个世纪以来，“计算机”一词指的是活生生的、会呼吸的人类。今天，没有人可以宣称这个头衔。这就是“艺术家”的命运吗？通过质疑我们使用人工智能的方式，艺术家可以帮助解决我们作为一种文化应该如何与它互动的问题。

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