Inteligência Artificial Generativa e o mundo da arte: novos modos de presença ou meros sistemas algorítmicos?

Abstract

The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation of aesthetic objects not only alters but radically transforms the foundations of the creative process, challenging established conceptions of art and authorship. The emergence of this technology raises a series of crucial questions that traverse the fields of aesthetics and philosophy of art: can AI-generated products be recognized as artworks in the full sense, or are they merely algorithmic simulations of human creativity? To what extent does human agency still play an essential role in defining the artistic status of these objects, and what is the scope of machine autonomy in this process? These questions strain the relationship between authorship and creativity, reconfiguring the concepts of originality and artistic intentionality and compelling us to reconsider the boundaries between aesthetic production and computational programming. To address this complexity, we turn to the analysis of the modes of presence proposed by Rodrigo Duarte, with an emphasis on the modes of presentation and representation, as well as the transition between them. Through this theoretical framework, we investigate how AI-generated products transition between different forms of mediation and immediacy in aesthetic experience, highlighting the interaction between human and algorithmic agency in the artistic creation process. In this way, generative artificial intelligence challenges historical paradigms and urges us to critically revisit the traditional notions that sustain the understanding of what constitutes art, demanding a new approach that considers the dynamics of contemporary aesthetic mediation.