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September 16, 2025Open Access

Human Perception of AI-Generated Art: A Comparative Study of Aesthetic Appreciation Between Human-Created and GAN-Generated Works

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Significant bias was found in favor of human-created art, indicating higher ratings for emotional depth and creativity.
Aesthetic evaluations covered dimensions such as beauty, emotional resonance, originality, and overall preference.
The study involved a controlled experimental paradigm with 147 participants conducting blind assessments.
Findings shed light on psychological mechanisms of art appreciation, relevant for ethical discussions in digital art.

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ABSTRACT: The integration of artificial intelligence into creative processes has prompted scholarly inquiry into the perceptual equivalence of AI-generated and human-created artworks. This investigation examines human aesthetic judgments of art produced by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) relative to human-authored works. Employing a controlled experimental paradigm with 147 participants, aesthetic evaluations were conducted across dimensions including beauty, emotional resonance, originality, technical proficiency, and overall preference in a blinded assessment. Findings reveal a statistically significant bias favoring human-created art, with elevated ratings in emotional depth and perceived creativity, despite limited ability to discriminate origins. These outcomes elucidate the psychological mechanisms underpinning art appreciation in the context of AI, with implications for computational creativity and ethical considerations in digital art production. Keywords: AI-generated art, Generative Adversarial Networks, aesthetic evaluation, perceptual bias, computational creativity

Human Perception of AI-Generated Art: A Comparative Study of Aesthetic Appreciation Between Human-Created and GAN-Generated Works

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