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This seems to follow a similar line of thought ( On Art In Context )
Yea, we're well into DADA-ist territory to find interesting reference points for the timeless question of "what is art" in this discussion.
I'm curious: how do you feel this relates? Does the banana feel like it should or should not be art and/or copyrighted? Is it an energy/effort quality being compared to the end result? Or just the concept vs physical manifestation of the concept?
Because the AI controversy isn't about art, it's about money, and the notion that artists have to art to stay alive. Specifically, they have to please rich patrons, often by providing a thing that fits into their own vanity project. That said, it doesn't matter how much time someone spent on a thing, whether they poured their soul into a 100,000 word volume, or taped a banana to a wall. All that matters is if it entertained a Rockefeller enough that they are willing to pay a fee.
If artists weren't on the brink of starvation and homelessness and getting shot by law enforcement, then AI would be a new keen tool. And it's not even that it will replace artists, but that rich guys think it'll replace artists and it will save them from tossing some coins at riff-raff.
We actually saw this during the 2020 epidemic and lockdown, that artists given a grocery budget, a warm home and nowhere to go will get arty on their own, and by this way we could have a very robust public domain. But that's now how we do things.