As technology progresses, artificial intelligence is increasingly folded into the realm of art because of the content it can produce.

But no matter how impressive the output may appear, content can never be the same as art. Painting and music defined human expression for a reason. This technology opens no new doors and carries no reason of its own. It is trained on other people’s work, accessible at the click of a button. It feeds on existing creation and returns it in a new arrangement.

To connect it to art in any way is to mistake replication for revelation, or automation for creation. Art was born out of a uniquely human urge to make sense of death. The machine has no such urge, no origin in necessity.

That doesn’t diminish its power. Artificial intelligence may become indispensable in content production, but it will never belong in the same category as art. To blur that line is to misunderstand both.