From "Non-Beauty" to the Negative Aesthetics: the Artistic Path of "It Looks Like AI"

The judgment of "it looks like AI" ‌implies the progressive negation of the three levels: the work, its subject and its value. Based on the reproduction experience, the judgment claims "non-beauty" on the aesthetic intuition of "non-truth", but in fact, it equated the reproduction of reality with the artistic reality. As for subject and value, it constructs the logic of exclusivity through the retrospective imagination of the subject, and is eager to complete the legitimacy defense of human themselves, reflecting the deep anxiety brought by the artistic crisis in the post-human era. Eliminating the cover of technicism, classism and anthropocentrism, the aesthetic intuition of "unreal" reveals that the "inversion of truth" of artificial intelligence art, which is different from artificial works. Along the path of negative aesthetics, "it looks like AI" may become a new opportunity for the expansion of art.