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Why would it make a difference if an AI had made the error? The result would be exactly the same.
It’s not about the result, for me it’s about the cause. Knowledge of, true or imagined, as to why the accident happened, matters to me.
As to why? I think my closest answer, at this point in time, would have to do with something in me resonating with another’s human folly. Folly based on something biological/mental. For example, the accidental hanging of the painting could have been caused by something the installer of the painting ate for lunch earlier, their stomach may have disagreed with something they ate and this in turn clouded their cognitive skills and so in that off state they hung the painting incorrectly.
Or it could have been caused by something happening subconsciously, some awful experience they had as a child that unknown to even themselves got in the way of them not putting proper attention on the matter at hand, which was to hang the painting correctly. Now you can say that an AI can be programmed to do the same, but a program will always be just a simulation. The cause for it to hang the painting incorrectly couldn’t be the same, because it’s not coming from a place that’s entirely human.
What theoretically limits an AI being "random enough" to feed your soul? Are we "fooled" into enjoying things, or do we just enjoy things? If we found out Ringo Starr was the name of an Illuminati drum machine made using alien technology from Area 51, and that Richard Starkey was just the drummer in live performances, would it suddenly ruin the Beatles' recordings for you? They'd still sound the same.
‘fooled’ such as … Yes one could totally enjoy a magic trick at first, and then if it was revealed how it was done after? well, that of course would change the trick ever after, for good or bad.
And so, yes, the Beatles wouldn’t be throughly enjoyed in the same way. I mean, even though one knows they are being fooled, doesn’t mean that pleasure can not be experienced, but knowing that one is being fooled does change that experience. For me, it would.
Personally I would experience a different form of pleasure from the knowledge that Ringo was really a ‘Illuminati drum machine using alien technology’. I would still enjoy it, but it would open up different questions and that would of course change my listening experience.
Pushing it further into the future: are carbon-based life forms the only possible life, and could non-human life create art on its own? I'm not a speciesist.
Putting aside how one defines what art is to them. For me, again, I guess it has to do with something in me resonating with or needing to resonate with or preferring to resonate with another that is able to dream and experience, move and grow from a unique point of view/being made of flesh and blood, brain and bone, etc. And not simply be mere programing, a copy of, or simulation.