I personally am not a big fan of “experimental” art, I feel it is too full of itself. I think most experimental art makes me feel the artist is pretentious. But then, I myself have been using GPT in much the same way when we have been collaborating to create C# code for creating my video games or asking for help rewriting things. I even defend the use of AI in artistic and scholarly uses. Mark Amerika seems to understand that art is not simply a human creation, primates, elephants, crows, and even pufferfish make what I would call art. I simply add our emerging “AI” systems to the list.
Mark explains the process for creating with an AI not simply copy-pasting it but rather, talking with it, having a back and forth with the AI. When I explain how to use an AI to new people I tell them to “talk to it like you’re talking to a child.” Talk with it, correct it, and explain what you want it to do simply. Because even as advanced as it is, it’s still in its infancy.
Learning to collaborate and interact on an equal footing with AI is going to become a very necessary skill as it starts to encroach on every aspect of human life. This intersection of human and artificial creativity raises intriguing questions. How much of the final product is human, and how much is machine? Is the AI merely an advanced tool, or is it stepping into the realm of being a ‘digital muse’? Amerika wants us reconsider the boundaries of authorship and creativity in the digital age.