re: #335 Randall Gross

I don’t think anyone is going to be able to stop you from calling it art if you want to, but that’s not the point. Stolen, copied, plagiarized art is art too I guess, but you have to ask is it worthwhile art? (I mean if you think so I have some monkey NFT’s I’d like to sell you.)

e.g. this recent Fogerty song is so Fogerty that an AI could have created it, but I will personally only call it Art when Fogerty does it. (For the record I’m not a huge Fogerty fan, maybe it’s from all those years listening to “Proud Mary” at every social occcasion.)

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Gen AI created art is not stolen or copied; it’s derivative. You’re thinking of copies, photos, or forgeries.