Artificial intelligence art: Attitudes and perceptions toward human versus artificial intelligence artworks

This research is a study on the views and acceptance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on the painting and literature created by the latest AI technologies to understand the advancement and capabilities in the domain of art. An online questionnaire with built-in experiment is sent to a university’s undergraduates in a local university with 202 responds. Data are analyzed by PSPP using Cronbach’s Alpha to test the reliability of the questionnaire items. Frequencies, Mean, Chi-Square, and T-Test are used in the analysis of the hypotheses. The results show that 54% of the respondents did not correctly identify emotions in AI artwork and therefore could not appreciate the emotion expressed in AI artworks. There was no correlation between degree of exposure to AI technology and acceptance of AI artworks although the positive acceptance rate is high - 74%. An average of 55.3% of the respondents are able to correctly differentiate between AI artwork and human artwork. Lastly, there is no correlation between the identity of the artist attributed and judgement on AI images. However, there is a correlation between attributed artist and judgement for AI poem.