In this paper, I take the cultural effects of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) as a context for examining a broader perspective of AI’s impact on contemporary art notions. After the introductory overview of generative AI, I summarize the distinct but often confused aspects of art notions and review the principal lines in which AI influences them: the strategic normalization of AI through art, the representation of AI art in the artworld, academia, and AI research, and the mutual permeability of art and kitsch in the digital culture. I connect these notional factors with the conceptual and ideological substrate of the computer science and AI industry, which blends the machinic agency fetishism, the equalization of computers and humans, the sociotechnical blindness, and cyberlibertarianism. The overtones of alienation, sociopathy, and misanthropy in the disparate but somehow coalescing philosophical premises, technical ideas, and political views in this substrate remain underexposed in AI studies so, in the closing discussion, I outline their manifestations in generative AI and introduce several viewpoints for a further critique of AI’s cultural zeitgeist. They add a touch of skepticism to pondering how technological trends change our understanding of art and in which directions they stir its social, economic, and political roles.

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（厌）人人工智能时代的艺术观念


在本文中，我以生成人工智能（generative AI）的文化影响为背景，从更广泛的角度审视人工智能对当代艺术概念的影响。在对生成式人工智能进行了介绍性概述之后，我总结了艺术概念中独特但经常令人困惑的方面，并回顾了人工智能影响它们的主线：人工智能通过艺术的战略正常化，人工智能艺术在艺术界、学术界和艺术界的表现。人工智能研究，以及数字文化中艺术与媚俗的相互渗透。我将这些概念因素与计算机科学和人工智能行业的概念和意识形态基础联系起来，其中融合了机器机构拜物教、计算机和人类的平等、社会技术盲目性和网络自由主义。在人工智能研究中，异化、反社会和厌世等不同但以某种方式融合在一起的哲学前提、技术思想和政治观点的暗示在人工智能研究中仍然没有得到充分暴露，因此，在最后的讨论中，我概述了它们在生成人工智能中的表现，并介绍了几个观点对人工智能文化时代精神的进一步批评。他们在思考技术趋势如何改变我们对艺术的理解以及它们向哪些方向搅动艺术的社会、经济和政治作用时添加了一丝怀疑态度。