> The fun part is, this is how human artists learn too.
We don't actually know exactly how human artists learn, and human artists are capable of innovation, nobody knew pointillism or Bauhaus before they were invented.
A little know fact is that for humans it takes a long long time to learn, while they learn, they develop a style, if they don't they are not "real" artists, but merely executors, artists evolve, sometimes dramatically, in unexpected ways [1] [2].
So for us humans learning is an experience, not just recombining parts of features of other things.
We are also highly influenced by feelings, unfortunately, so sometimes we do things a certain way because we felt that way, not because we wanted to paint that thing that way, or because we are not good enough to do exactly what we wanted to do.
Is Mona Lisa happy? Who can tell?
Was Leonardo happy when he painted it?
What was Leonardo thinking when he painted it?
What was happening in his life?
Is that the best smile Leonardo could paint or it's an enigma he put there for future generations?
These questions are more important for an artist than the mere features of the painting.
The philosophical question is: is art discovered or invented?
If it's discovered, then SD can generate art, if it's invented, than SD it's not even generative work, because to invent something from something else, you need inventiveness.
We don't actually know exactly how human artists learn, and human artists are capable of innovation, nobody knew pointillism or Bauhaus before they were invented.
A little know fact is that for humans it takes a long long time to learn, while they learn, they develop a style, if they don't they are not "real" artists, but merely executors, artists evolve, sometimes dramatically, in unexpected ways [1] [2].
So for us humans learning is an experience, not just recombining parts of features of other things.
We are also highly influenced by feelings, unfortunately, so sometimes we do things a certain way because we felt that way, not because we wanted to paint that thing that way, or because we are not good enough to do exactly what we wanted to do.
Is Mona Lisa happy? Who can tell?
Was Leonardo happy when he painted it?
What was Leonardo thinking when he painted it?
What was happening in his life?
Is that the best smile Leonardo could paint or it's an enigma he put there for future generations?
These questions are more important for an artist than the mere features of the painting.
The philosophical question is: is art discovered or invented?
If it's discovered, then SD can generate art, if it's invented, than SD it's not even generative work, because to invent something from something else, you need inventiveness.
[1] Picasso 1896 https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/pablo-...
[2] Picasso 1946 https://www.photo.rmn.fr/CorexDoc/RMN/Media/TR1/MS4GY/16-515...