@lethargilistic in fact I would go even further with this and say that there are lots of examples of things that I would call art that the average philistine on the internet who soyfaces about AI-generated art that follows a very conventional realist style would say are actually not art and like postmodernist garbage or something

I would go further still and say that based on how AIs currently work, I think it's unlikely you could even get it to successfully mimic the style of dadaism or surrealism or something like that, because funnily enough that's what AI art looks like when it's not functioning "correctly", the sort of GAN art from a few years back that all looked really fucking inhuman and weird. people have over time considered AI art to be more like art and more successful as art as it has become less interesting, had more popular appeal, more closely resembled what we think of as being classically "good art" -- something that follows a conventional realist approach

to me this is a pretty clear indication that AI art as it exists today is just a passing fad that is being driven largely by con artist tech companies trying to hype up their latest product to a market of gullible consumers before their whole Mechanical Turk operation falls apart