Artificial Intelligence Art as a Prey Organism that Tricks its Creators
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Artificial Intelligence, Information, Trickster, Adaptation, Biomimetics, PaintingAbstract
The apparent connection of art to trickery and deceit has been critically examined since antiquity, mainly framed as a tautology. The fraudulence of art, except manipulating perception, is a deliberate act against a receiver. Artistic trickery is seen as the ancestor of all artificial practices. Mimicry constitutes the essence of art and A.I., and when defined in Platonic terms, a series of inconsistencies arise: functional errors, ambivalent signals, pseudocodes, even fake faults, or misleading strategies. A novel conceptual framework might reconceptualise artificial intelligence (A.I.) as a type of prey organism: a creation that, beyond mere adaptation, subterraneously manipulates the very environment of its existence: its creators. As A.I. evolves in complexity, its behaviour increasingly mirrors the image of a biological entity, whose survival strategy lies in eliciting calculated responses from its developers.
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