Episode11.46: Authenticity, copyright, intellectual property and AI copies of identifiable artists.

Now that artificial intelligence can reproduce works of art, and indeed create new ones in the recognisable style of almost any artist, and to such an extent that they are almost indistinguishable from works that are original, raises the issue of whether an artist’s style is itself the principal legacy, rather than the works painted. We discuss some of the issues that this raises and the question of why being an original painting by the real artist matters so much to us and whether it should.