Artificial Creativity and the Incomplete Aesthetic Experience

This paper assesses the aesthetic experience provided by AI-generated visual art to assign aesthetic values to the same. Following from an experiential theory of aesthetic value, the notion of value remains inseparable from that of the experience of the aesthetic object in question. By conducting a detailed exploration of a complete, unified, and correct aesthetic experience through aesthetic judgement, I argue that AI-generated works lack the intentional relation thus providing an incomplete aesthetic experience – resulting in aesthetic values lower that than of anthropogenic works valued for a unified aesthetic experience. In doing so, the paper additionally answers recent allegations of human bias in perceiving AI art. The findings of this paper contribute to the field of computational creativity by treading on novel ground and providing a qualitative unravelling of the aesthetic values such works hold and their credibility as a tool to aid human creativity.