But what happens when AI touches on the most deeply human creative tasks—art? Artists have been reacting with alarm to the rapid encroachment of AI tools. Some of that concern is aesthetic. “A grotesque mockery of what it is to be human” is how famed musician Nick Cave described an AI attempt to create lyrics “in the style of a Nick Cave song.” Animator Hayao Miyazaki called AI art “an insult to life itself.” When one artist won a competition with an AI-generated piece, it caused an outcry, but the winning artist defended the AI’s work. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”
