AI Artistry

On one of my trips to China, I toured an art production factory. 

The factory was 20 or so stations. At each station was a painter (men and women) sitting on a chair, a table full of 6”x6” canvases with an outlined picture of the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall and surrounding mountains, brushes and paints, and a drying rack. The painter grabbed a blank canvas, filled in the outline, and set the finished picture on the drying rack. 

It took each painter about 7 minutes per canvas, so they finished 8 or 9 an hour. That factory was pumping out approximately 1500 of those little paintings per day. 

An artist had created the original image, and these highly skilled painters were replicating it perfectly. But these painters weren’t artists (at least not in this capacity). 

AI’s got skills. AI’s got tools. AI’s got power.

But AI has no point of view. 

The art is in the point of view.