Just to be clear, even when a human writes and refines prompts, tweaks parameters, and iterates generation until they see something they imagined but lacked the traditional art skills to produce... we have not ended up with art? (If someone posts all 2000 iterates of their last prompt, that's bad social behavior, but it's hard for me to feel like it "un-arts" the results.) Or is there some other generation procedure you're imagining that's responsible for the alleged non-art?
(Lest I be accused of moving goalposts or trying to sound less crazy, I want to double down on my original motivation that I think we need to make philosophical space for minds with agency and potential personhood that did not evolve in meat. I have no confidence that that will become urgent in my lifetime, but I think it will someday and it would be nice to be culturally through with the arguments about whether it could possibly ever make art before we're forced to argue about whether it can vote or join the priesthood or whatever!)
With all due respect, I don’t think you really get what art is. Please just google the definition or something. No someone that doesn’t have art skills cannot create art precisely for the same reason, with or without ai .
The hypothetical situation doesn’t even make sense. For the exact same reason that no matter how many prompts you use, you can’t write a good book with chat gpt. Art “goodness” exists entirely beyond the realm of being able to communicate it through words. It’s not something you can quantify logically and refine it through a prompt. You’ll always end up with some mechanical, derivative crap
(Lest I be accused of moving goalposts or trying to sound less crazy, I want to double down on my original motivation that I think we need to make philosophical space for minds with agency and potential personhood that did not evolve in meat. I have no confidence that that will become urgent in my lifetime, but I think it will someday and it would be nice to be culturally through with the arguments about whether it could possibly ever make art before we're forced to argue about whether it can vote or join the priesthood or whatever!)