But most people can’t do everything. How would you view art where the artist relies on AI for the pieces they can’t do? If I play guitar but an ai wrote the drum part, is that art? What if I write the book but ai made the illustrations?
If, for example:
- an artist creates an image,
- 40% of the image is the work of the artist,
- 60% of the image is from an AI
then:
- the image is 40% a work of art.
- the art resides in the 40% of the work that the artist did.
- the majority of the image (51%) is not art.
Drumming presents an interesting perspective because we've had mechanical/synthesized drum sounds in pop and other music for a few decades now. But you can still tell when tracks have a lazy drum programmer that programmed one 16-step pattern in a drum machine (or worse used a stock pattern) and kept it repeating through the whole song. That is less art than the intricate DnB or breakcore tracks with lots of changes and interaction with other layers of the song.