Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No. 10, 2025

The Disenchantment of Art and the Re-Enchantment of Technology: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Language of Artificial Intelligence Art

(Abstract)

Tao Feng

Artificial intelligence (AI) art represents the automated production and formalization of artistic language. A linguistic reading of the Turing Test shows that Turing effectively equated thinking with the automatic generation of language. The technical logic underlying AI language is based on pattern fitting and transcoding, while the acceptance of AI-generated texts as art derives largely from habitual reception and shared artistic conventions. AI art occupies a space between natural beauty and artistic beauty, embodying a form of “purposiveness without purpose.” The automation of language production has resulted in a proliferation of derivative texts, rendering AI artistic language a kind of materialized linguistic form. The formalization of AI art reflects humanity’s attempt to use technology to demystify art by uncovering its underlying laws, yet this very process simultaneously engenders renewed technological enchantment. Ultimately, the formalization of AI artistic language erodes its dialectical nature, transforming art into an intelligent cultural commodity driven by capital. Examining the human-machine relationship seeks to avoid the paradox of technological control; only by recognizing AI as a participant within an actor-network and as an equal interlocutor can AI art achieve redemption.