Discussion on the Aesthetic Experience of Artificial Intelligence Creation and Human Art Creation

With the continuous development and progress of science and technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has gradually become a part of the field of literary and artistic creation. In this process, more AI works of art have emerged at key moments. As a result, discussions of the evaluation of AI-produced art have become richer and richer. At present, when discussing whether or not works created by AI are art, the biggest controversy relates to whether AI creations can express emotions, as human art can. No textual research has yet been conducted on this topic. Although a few studies have explored the emotions elicited by AI works of art, most have focused on the identity cognition of AI and human artists. This research proposes a novel approach to artistic aesthetic experience to explore two research questions, as follows: 1) What types of emotional responses do observers have when they encounter works of art created by artificial intelligence? 2) Is there a significant difference in observers’ emotional responses to AI works of art and the works of human artists? In this study, the abstract works of art created by human artists and AI are used as the primary image stimulation, and the Geneva Emotion Wheel created by the Swiss Emotional Research Center is used as the basic measuring tool, allowing the study participants to choose from 20 emotion types and 5 intensity levels.