[weego]

No it's a completely different interest and skillet. Not everything can be boiled down to "datascience can fix it!". Especially when all those NNs will just generate art that's a mashup of the training data and won't have any real inspiration. Unexpected results is not inspiration.

[yorwba]

Using GANs for art is not necessarily limited to training on a collection of famous artists to replicate their style.

Some artists use them as another tool to process and transform their artwork https://thegradient.pub/playing-a-game-of-ganstruction/

I'm pretty sure that the invention of photography was also greeted with complaints that it lacked "real inspiration" because a photographer "just" had to choose what to take a picture of. But the real inspiration is always in what you choose your art to be, and not whether you create it by applying paint to a canvas.