AI, Art, and the Artist

Art is the harmony of two things: creativity and craftsmanship. The value of the art and the artist depend on the balance between the two.

The Renaissance was the peak: 100 out of 100 + 100 out of 100, a perfect 200-point era.

Now, with AI tools, craftsmanship is almost gone. And a large part of creativity has also been outsourced to the tool itself.

So what we widely have today is: 10 out of 100 + 10 out of 100 = 20 points of value. For both the art and the artist.

People using these tools can stop calling themselves artists. It just looks funny. The works are brilliant, and the future belongs to them. But the "artist" has no future there.

This isn't a value judgment about AI-generated work. The output can be stunning. But the role of the human in the process has fundamentally changed. When the tool does most of the creative and technical work, what's left for the person pressing the button?