>You can try testing your theory by trying to sell a "painting" created by DALLE/whatever for more than a third-rate amateur painter can sell one of his. Good luck with that, especially when access to the model becomes easy.
As if that proves anything? Sale price is irrelevant. There are paintings sold for millions that 99.9% of the people could not give less fucks for, and "amateur painter" stuff that touch most people who see them.
It's also not like a $2 million in production costs Michael Jackson song with $50M sales is "better" artistically (as opposed to commercially) than a song composed and played by some random guy on an acoustic for ~0.
>This is so painfully incorrect and naive (and contra anything we know about the value of everything which creation has been automated before) that I think it's meaningless to continue this conversation.
It was meaningless to begin with, as you don't discuss, you present your "ultimate truth" ("contra anything we know", lol).
In fact there are tons of works where the creator is anonymous (from folk music and art to early house, techno and rave music, a scene with cherished anonymity), and people respond to it just fine...
As if that proves anything? Sale price is irrelevant. There are paintings sold for millions that 99.9% of the people could not give less fucks for, and "amateur painter" stuff that touch most people who see them.
It's also not like a $2 million in production costs Michael Jackson song with $50M sales is "better" artistically (as opposed to commercially) than a song composed and played by some random guy on an acoustic for ~0.
>This is so painfully incorrect and naive (and contra anything we know about the value of everything which creation has been automated before) that I think it's meaningless to continue this conversation.
It was meaningless to begin with, as you don't discuss, you present your "ultimate truth" ("contra anything we know", lol).
In fact there are tons of works where the creator is anonymous (from folk music and art to early house, techno and rave music, a scene with cherished anonymity), and people respond to it just fine...