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The National Gallery quiz illustrates your point beautifully! This makes me think that the high modernist idea of the self-contained and meaningful art object is not going to hold up well with AI to parody it. The very idea of art, then, needs to account for the interaction between conscious artist and conscious viewer. This is very 19th century and would make Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren shudder mightily. Very thought-provoking!

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I love this idea… we need to get back to human connection, which AI can merely simulate.

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