As artificial intelligence grows in capability and scale, the art it creates has become a major point of interest. 

   This is because art is a human creation. It stems directly from the human experience, from the hardships and beauty of life throughout history. Art is not objective. It is not a statistic. It is not quantifiable. Making art requires creativity, something that technology has never been shown to be capable of. 

   However, with AI-generated images and audio, the very definition of art is being reconsidered. 

   Everything that AI makes derives from something else. If someone asked an AI to make a painting of the ocean, it would pull from millions of real paintings made by real humans. Even though what AI makes is new, it comes entirely from other art.

  This process prompts many questions. Is AI exhibiting creativity? Is AI art original or stolen? Can AI-generated content be considered art at all? 

   The purpose of art is almost always to represent and convey some kind of emotion or experience. A piece of music or a painting can evoke feelings unhindered by conventional language. The connections that art can make are raw, pure, and human. 

   AI does not have any emotions to convey. It doesn’t have any memories. AI art is, to a degree, pointless. It can be entertaining, but it misses the essence of why art exists. 

   AI will have many societal consequences, including taking jobs and replacing creativity. Its mimicry of human expressions poses a threat to how our species communicates. Humans are collaborative. History shows the importance of human interaction, and AI could serve as a replacement for such a connection. If art is left in the hands of AI, one of the strongest vessels of communication will no longer exist. 

   While technology should be used to automate mundane and menial work, there are some things that need to remain uniquely human. Thought cannot be automated, and growing dependency on AI leads to a society without humanity.