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In his polemic AI under Suspicion of Art, Hermann Selchow examines the far-reaching consequences of artificial intelligence for the contemporary understanding of art and literary practice. The author criticises the current debate as superficial and shows how moral prejudice often overlays the actual aesthetic quality of a work. Drawing on the history of ideas from Aristotle to Barthes, he exposes the modern ideal of the genius creator as a Romantic construct and argues instead for a new concept of authorship grounded in conscious decision and human accountability. Selchow strictly distinguishes between a soulless AI flood and the responsible use of the technology as dialogue partner and tool. Ultimately the text calls for measuring the quality of a work not by its technical origin but by the depth of artistic judgement. For the author, AI thus takes its place in a historical chain of upheavals that extend the nature of art without destroying its human core.

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Hermann Selchow was born and grew up in the GDR, refused to serve in the reserves, lost his job, worked in casual employment, and came to know the finer and cruder instruments of power at close quarters. For twelve years, until 1994, he worked at one of the country's leading theatres. After that he became self-employed. For many years he has been writing essays and non-fiction on quest-ions of freedom, responsibility, language and civil society. His books include Zwischen Hybris & Angst, Deutsc-hland - Eine Nation im Dilemma, Die Erben der Legenden and Ahasvers Wanderung. AI Under Suspicion of Art is his polemic on the relationship between human being and machine in art - written from the position of one who works with AI and does not wish to remain silent about what he sees in doing so.

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