Exploring the Human-AI Creative Spectrum: Predictive Insights from Public Perceptions on AI and Art

The following study investigates the perception of AI-created art in contrast to human-made artworks as Artificial Intelligence (AI) enters creative domains more and more. A mixed-method survey was developed called Artist Voices Matter, and the answers of artists, educators, students, and the general population were collected. Quantitative data was plotted and the sentiment of the open-ended responses was analyzed via TextBlob library. It is found that despite the AI generated art being recognized as a sign of innovation, human generated art is still more touching and believed in. Moreover, the majority of the respondents advocated the necessity of regulation that would guarantee a transparent AI art. These perceptions emphasize the need to retain a sense of human emotion and moral bearing in an artistically twenty-first-century driven by Artificial Intelligence