@aifurryart@artfolapp Sure, but such a definition was agreed upon when it was only humans analyzing each other. I think most people would hesitate to say that an artist's work being cannibalized by an invincible machine and spat out in a marginally different state for someone else's profit is "fair".
@ultamis@Ristle@BG_5you An artist looks at art and the world around them and decides how they want to uniquely express what they're feeling through that. Someone using AI just takes the algorithmic average of others' work and calls it a day. Such "art" says nothing about the person who had it generated.
@ultamis@Ristle@BG_5you Even if we are to argue that AI references images in the same way as an artist, an artist pulls from an extremely complex lifetime of external experiences to fuel their creative direction whereas the AI doesn't even know how or why it does what it does. Hence, "soulless".