A Catalog of “AI” Art Analogies | Aaron Hertzmann’s bloghttps://aaronhertzmann.com/2023/03/01/ai-art-analogies.html
The article discusses the use of analogies in discussing and debating "AI" art, highlighting the usefulness and limitations of each analogy. The most common analogy is photography, which emphasizes the similarity to previous artistic technologies that seemed to automate art but came to be widely accepted. Other analogies include conceptual art, theft, appropriation, music recording, sampling and collage, lava lamps, and parrots. While analogies can be useful in identifying similarities between old and new things, they can also hide differences and reflect the speaker's agenda. The article argues that each analogy is useful in some ways but misleading in others.