Artists have experimented with algorithms and randomness for more than a century. By Matteo Wong Illustration by The Atlantic This is Atlantic Intelligence, a newsletter in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age. Sign up here. Today’s generative-AI tools can concoct stunning designs and playful prose with the push of a few buttons. That, in turn, has bred fears about how the technology could hurt human artists and writers, and led many, in their defense of humanity, to a well-intentioned but confused claim. Even if AI can produce images and text, critics argue, these products are designed to obviate human intent and expression, and thus can never truly make “art.” In this vein of thinking, humans can never use AI […]
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