AI IMAGE MANIFESTO (not as such)

A friend expressed a curious sentiment recently. She said an image I'd posted on my facebook page was wonderful, but the fact that she knew it was AI generated freaked her out, although she couldn't say why. 

Currently, at this early stage in AI art's life cycle, most people I see dabbling seem to be trying to reproduce reality from the persepctive of a posh camera. Something I don't understand. 

Eventually there should come a point in time where an AI artist's particular sense of style, or rather, their ability to craft the complimenting facets of the styles of other artists into something new by employing them much like a musician employs musical notes, chords, key changes or rhythm etc... will emerge. 

At such a point looking at certain AI made images should be more easily ascribable to particular AI artists than it is right now. I think that ought to be the aim of AI artists at least. 

This moment in time (25th May 2023) for me feels similar to way the concept of sampling of records facilitated the birth of Hip-Hop and Rap proper, which then fed into and heavily influenced a whole raft of other musical genres of music at the time. Eventually reaching all art's final resting place. The universal cemetery we call Pop. 😂