The Algorithmic Muse: How AI Art Fits Into Art History
A new deep dive into the phases of AI creativity—and why the human questions behind it are as old as art itself.
This week, I asked Dr. Gemini 2.5, a leading art historian, to produce a deep research report analyzing the different phases of AI art—and how they fit within the broader story of art history. I then asked esteemed copy-editor Claude 3.7 to rewrite it, shorten it, and make it more accessible for me to share here.
The goal was simple: to move past the endless surface debates about “is AI art real?” and instead place today’s AI explosion in a much longer historical context. How has technology always challenged art? How has art always evolved in response? Where is AI truly different—and where is it just history repeating itself at hyperspeed?
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