Does typing prompts into an app make you an artist?


Our columnist generated this image in Midjourney with the following prompts: "A male and female model kissing, dressed in Gucci beach wear while lying in the Great Plastic Patch in the middle of the ocean. Fashion photography. Highly detailed. Vibrant colours." And no, he doesn't claim it's arty photography. — JASON GODFREY

This might be a hot take, but artificial intelligence-generated images are not art.

Let me get into this. For anyone who doesn’t know, Midjourney, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion and others are artificial intelligence-based (AI) apps that can generate images from just a few words, which are called prompts.

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