arXiv:2607.17940cs.CYcs.AI2026-07

AI艺术不是技术突变,而是创作基因的延续与重构。

The Aura in the Machine: Genealogy and the Status of the Work of Art in the Generative Era

  • 用谱系方法梳理生成艺术史,区分媒介、作品、工具三类系统。
  • 提出算法重复是美学退化,原创与复制品可共存于新存在状态。
  • 适合思考艺术本质、创作者角色转变的人阅读。

本文将生成式人工智能(AI)视为一种工业规模的、根植于历史进程的表现,而非前所未有的技术断裂。通过追溯生成艺术的谱系,揭示了当前关于作者权与创造力的问题具有明确的历史先例。论文提出一个三类功能分类体系:媒介、作品、工具,其归属为编辑性划分而非本体论划分。从个体认知衰退到模型坍塌,识别出创意自动化带来的系统性风险;并提出环境丰富化作为应对策略。艺术家角色发生根本性转变:从物体制作者变为熵增代理者、系统设计师、探索者与负熵策展人。该基于流水线的分类体系建立在特定前提之上:算法系统始终是媒介、工具或作品,而创造主体存在于流程中的分布式人类。算法重复被引入作为对齐生成系统的审美退化;本雅明所说的“灵韵”并未在生成时代消散,反而凝聚于生产系统本身。提出‘显现’作为生成作品的第三种本体地位,超越原作与复制品的二元对立。为支持上述观点,考察了两个互补方面:分布式作者权的激化;以及对旧生成模型的重新评估,其不稳定性构成近年模型所丧失的美学自由度。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper frames Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) not as an unprecedented technological rupture, but as an industrial-scale manifestation of a deeply rooted historical process. Through a genealogy of generative arts, it shows how AI's questions on authorship and creativity have precise historical precedents. A taxonomy of generative systems is proposed across three functional categories (medium, artwork, instrument), the attribution of which is editorial rather than ontological. From individual cognitive atrophy to Model Collapse, the systemic risks of creative automation are identified; environmental enrichment is proposed as an antidote. The role of the artist undergoes a radical metamorphosis: from craftsman of the object to entropic agent, systems designer, explorer, and negentropic curator. This pipeline-based taxonomy rests on a specific premise: the algorithmic system remains medium, instrument, or artwork, while creative agency resides in the humans distributed along it. Algorithmic Repetition is introduced as the aesthetic degeneration of aligned generative systems; the Benjaminian aura does not dissolve in the generative era but condenses upon the productive system. Manifestation is proposed as a third ontological status for generative works, transcending the dichotomy between original and copy. To support the proposed theses, two complementary aspects are examined: the radicalization of distributed authorship; and the reevaluation of older generative models, whose instability constitutes an aesthetic degree of freedom lost by recent ones.

艺术哲学生成艺术作者权灵韵

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