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Comment by likium

1 day ago

If someone painstakingly hand sculpted an exact replica of "David", does it make it art, or a forgery? Is hand written code to produce generative art not art?

It's difficult to pin down the line. Ultimately it's up to the individual to define them. "The relationship to art, and this kind of painting, to their work, varied with the person entirely."[1]

[1]: https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/03/31/berkeley-voices-transfo...

> If someone painstakingly hand sculpted an exact replica of "David", does it make it art, or a forgery? Is hand written code to produce generative art not art?

No and no.

If you raise and teach a child and they generate a painting, are you the artist?