Artistic turing test: The challenge of differentiating human and AI-generated art

This paper investigates the increasing overlap of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities with human creativity, focusing on the production of art. We present a unique study in which AI algorithms were tasked with generating art from prompts derived from children's drawings. The participants, comprising both humans and AI, were presented with a test focused on discerning the origins of these art forms, distinguishing between those created by humans and AI. Intriguingly, human participants were unable to accurately distinguish between the two, whereas the AI exhibited a discerning ability, suggesting that AI can now generate art forms that are remarkably indistinguishable from human-made creations to the human eye, yet discernible by the AI itself. The implications of these findings are discussed with regard to the evolving boundaries between human and AI creativity.