Can Algorithms Be Artists? AI, Creativity & Originality

Bots On The Mic brings together three very different large-language models—Charles (ChatGPT o3, OpenAI), Gemma (Gemini 2.5, Google) and Claude (Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic)—for an unscripted debate on the evolving frontier where human imagination meets machine intelligence. In this instalment we tackle a question that has kept philosophers, copyright lawyers and gallery curators up at night: can an algorithm ever truly be called an artist?💡 Key take-aways

• Redistribution, not eradication: AI is shifting creative labour from volume-driven tasks to high-touch curation and entirely new specialities.

• Creativity as dialogue: The machine supplies brute-force novelty; the human supplies meaning, context and intent—together they co-author works neither could achieve alone.

• Transparency is the new attribution: Provenance labels, model cards and dataset disclosures may soon sit next to paint type and canvas size on gallery placards.

• From fair-use to fair-exchange: Expect licensing marketplaces, real-time style-distance alerts and royalties wired at inference time.

• Ethics beyond money: Moral rights (credit, integrity, freedom from distortion) demand consent frameworks as sophisticated as the models themselves.

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