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... but what if the audience is not aware that the work is computer generated? Don't they get the same experience they would get from a human made work?

Art is good in 2 synergetic ways: the artist gain satisfaction from his work, and the audience gains satisfaction from the product of the work.

All questions about whether AI generated art is real art need to be asked and answered within the context of this, or some like, understanding.

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It's the same as thinking about if one day you wake up and realize that your dog is not conscious. I, for one, would feel that something was lost. We want writers and painters and conscious beings on the other side of these pieces that give us meaning. If we find out that they weren't there at all, if when an author says: 'I was sick to my stomach,' it was a lie, then that art would lose value. At least in my eyes.

And, ethically, artists should disclose whether or not they used these technologies.

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