Comment by card_zero
1 day ago
Let's say I used an AI. Actually I browsed unrelated word lists in Onelook - I think I was on synonyms for "confusion" - until I remembered the word atelier because it turns up in fantasy anime a lot. But that's a kind of machine assistance, so let's pretend it was an LLM, if that helps with where you're taking this. Now what?
it's exactly where I was going with it. Just because you used tools or have some mechanical process that you used along the way doesn't distract from the fact that you might be able to come up with a good pun. So if you have a computer model that can predict whether people will like a given pun (or a given response for any other domain), then the work produced will have the same effect on the audience. You could try to ascribe the prime mover title to the human that says "write me a pun, a good one!", but ultimately the machine is producing art.
The machine could also just produce lots of examples and test them on a large number of humans - in which case none of them individually is the artist, but the art is still being produced.