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By Casey Taylor / May 4, 2023 Art is linear, and so artificial intelligence cannot create art. This is a controversial opinion among the kinds of people who care about both art and AI, so let me explain. Art is a concept that describes two things. There is the obvious, material thing which is a piece of art. A canvas with paint on it. A sculpture of some kind. A scribbled drawing. A sonnet or piece of music. These are all things that qualify as art, and only a fool would deny that the material expression of art is linear: one thought causes another, and all of a work’s influences are present in it, if not necessarily visible. One can easily trace the impact that specific events have on material artistic expression. Industrialization, which created a linear iteration in the West known as modernism, or the forced opening of trade with Japan that shipped in ukiyo-e works and ushered in the Japonisme trend among French alcoholics. If artistic expression was not linear, the names of those