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That some, most or all art is partly or wholly derivative of other art is not relevant because the process used by 'AI' does not resemble the artistic process. When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet (a work derived from an older play, itself derived from an older myth which itself had been through countless retellings, variations and translations), he did not do what an LLM does, which is approximately to say: 'It's statistically likely that the phrase "to be" will be followed by the phrase "or not to be"'. Putting together statistical likelihoods is not creativity. This alone shows that AI 'art' is not creative and therefore not art at all.
Additionally, instructing a machine to make things from prompts does not require creativity. Creativity is not 'having ideas'; it's an ongoing process. When you tell an image generator to make an image, you're not asking it to create something, because it cannot do it. You're saying 'Show me the statistically likely output for this input'. Again, this statistical generator is not the same as, nor is it comparable to, the human imaginative process.
Example: My picture of the Lemming.
I knew exactly what I wanted before I even typed in the prompt: My vision was for a nervous, burned-out lemming to be sitting on a log, hunched over a laptop smoking a cigarette with bloodshot eyes surrounded in crushed beer cans.
That is not creative? Saying I have no imagination or creativity is kinda rude and giving all my credit to AI is downright insulting. Sure, I didn't draw it and I absolutely do not have the ability to draw it. However, you cannot (reasonably) deny that the idea is mine. I'm not exactly the most creative person in the world, but damn.... (The image will show up under my username over at least two instances over the span of 1-2 years? It's mine, is my point.)
If you saw my edit, you should know exactly what I thought when you said "artistic process".
However, my underlying point about derivative process or technique was to shoot a hole in the arguments of "cobbled together bits from wherever" and why I specifically used music as an example. Drum lines are openly copied. Not derived: blatantly copied. It's considered a compliment in many cases, actually. Progressions and transitions are all just copies. You don't even need AI to "statistically generate" music patterns. With every chord I choose to start a progression, there are only X number of chords that will work correctly after it.
I believe there have been some projects to generate (within reason) every chord progression possible and every kind of melody that would fit it... statistically. Almost every bit of popular music you hear is a derivative or a copy or reused or whatever, is my point. How many times have you heard the "Amen break"? More times than you actually know, unless you know your music, then you do. Much of music is just, for lack of a better term, math.
Creativity is an idea or multiple ideas. It's anything that exceeds the sum of your existing knowledge. AI by itself isn't "creative" and it is impossible for AI to be creative, we both agree. Again, from my perspective, AI can be used as a tool to fill in the gaps between two different ideas. It's the assembly of different ideas or components that is important. The sum of the key bits.
In my CAD work, I use formulas and simulated physics to automatically generate connecting features or structures. Are the designs I create exempted from "art" because of that?
Putting creativity and art into a box and saying you must follow "creative process" or "artistic process" is just odd. You can think that way if you want, but it's very limiting. The artists I study make a habit of saying "fuck the rules, fuck the process and do what makes you feel good."
Just for lulz, I was wondering what another machine would think of my Lemming. It kinda got it, but kinda didn't. Statistically, it figured out the parts, but you should know darn well what my intent was:
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Having ideas is not creativity. Creativity is creating the thing. If a billionaire pays a painter to create their idea, the artist is still the painter, not the billionaire commissioning the art. Replace the painter with AI and the logic doesn't change, the person putting the prompt is not an artist. It did not create the thing. The machine is not an artist either, as the human painter at least had consciousness, intention, agency, emotion,all things the machine doesn't have and cannot source from to create the art. This is why AI images always feel soulless, dry and boring. They don't produce any emotion on the audience because it had none to source from or communicate through the art. The prompt engineer is no artist but a commissionner to an inept soulless painter.
so there's no thing called "thinking creatively"?