06/03/2026
THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE ARTS
Aniz Tadeu Zegaib – art artist and writer - 05-2026
There are those who say that AI, in relation to the arts, is just another tool that helps in the creation and ex*****on of a work, be it plastic, literary, musical, film, poetic, inspiring and acting as a partner in your generation. I don't know if I agree with this. As an artist, I have the right to doubt.
Our social, intellectual, and genetic formation is made from the cluster of infinite information that we have accumulated over the course of our lives and all the lives of human history. Each of us is a synthesis of the human trajectory Each of us carries a huge amount of information that has made us and makes us interact with each other since the most distant times. We're not aware of having all this information. Although they are there, in our brain, they hide and do not always show themselves, remaining only in our unconscious. When they show themselves selective. Activate only what is necessary for that moment lived
After all, we are the result of an unlimited amount of information that we have stored throughout our lives. If we consider that each individual, therefore, also, all our ancestors, results from this compendium of information, we are the sum of everything that has been all people from the past until today, all nature, all facts, we are all history.
We are a little over eight billion people on the planet.
Imagine that with technological advancement bringing the possibility of interchangeable relations of all these people (social networks, real-time communication, access to culture from anywhere bringing different peoples closer together, a glimpse of the most remote places on Earth, all languages at our fingertips) we are bombarded with So much information every second that, individually, we are not able to process even a tiny fraction of everything that comes to us.
That's where AI comes in.
With the invention of the Internet, we feed our computers at all times with the information in our brains and exchange that information with other people. The blending of this information generates new possibilities that were not idealized by neither me nor the other, translating into a third alternative without a creative identity. So we multiply this procedure by eight billion and we will see that the amount of information we had before the advent of the digital world was infinitely less than the sum of that information processed by today's technology. This is how Artificial Intelligence works: (all human information accumulated and elevated to N-power, in a kind of moto-continuous, that never stops feeding). Let's just say that soon AI, as opposed to Socrates, will know everything – or almost everything. Remembering that ALL of this only refers to the past.
Creative artists have always used references in art history for their inspirations. In painting, countless artists have influenced and still influence painters, in music, great composers, of various eras and styles, influence creative musicians, in literature exceptional writers inspire and have always inspired many other writers, finally, artistic creation is the result of a huge pile of references and influences, where the creativity and emotion of the artist presents itself fully reflecting on the viewer of the work, in any modality.
Considering AI has access to trillions of works of art (of all modes and eras: music, theater, paintings, movies... ) as references to the supposed creation of an unpublished work, we can conclude that, acting in this way, far surpasses the creation of a human intelligence, being able, from the knowledge of everything that has already been done in art, to create a new work without the need for the intervention of an artist.
At the moment we need to request AI to produce a work, but soon we will see that it can create something without our request.
If we ask AI to compose a symphony inspired by the great classical composers, maybe, in seconds, we'll be able to hear this work without knowing how it was made. Would we realize the lack of emotion, of feeling in composition? Would we realize that this composition is purely mathematical? Or would we be deceived by the beautiful sounds and feel the music with our soul as if we were listening to a Chopin work? If we don't know its origin, we'd be deceived. In the same way, we can think of any other artistic mode.
Would we consider this a real work of art or a scam?
Will the human artist still have space in the near future or will all our future be just a reproduced reproduction of the past?
