{"id":619854,"date":"2026-04-21T23:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619854\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:39:08","slug":"artificial-intelligence-can-only-generate-output-it-takes-humans-to-actually-create-something-as-pablo-picasso-james-mcneill-whistler-and-the-ern-malley-hoax-all-help-to-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619854\/","title":{"rendered":"artificial intelligence can only generate output; it takes humans to actually create something, as Pablo Picasso, James McNeill Whistler and the Ern Malley hoax all help to explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 22, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence cannot create; it can only generate. It generates the product while bypassing the process. An artwork is both the art and the work. Consequential art is the product of labour \u2013 labour that can be intense and self-reflective or playful and intuitive.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cvalue\u201d of an artwork relies on the function of \u201cquality\u201d and \u201ceffort\u201d required to produce it: V = f (Q,E).<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 22, 2026 \u2013 5.00am Artificial intelligence cannot create; it can only generate. It generates the product while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-619854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}