about AI art, the Noll experiment half a century ago

 AI generated art although controversial  lends itself to interesting
analysis,  about technology (how is it done) and reflections on art itself

I am reminded of the Noll experiment, about  half a century ago
very relevant to the questions being discussed,
1. note what Noll did, how he did it
2, note what people thought when comparing the original with the computer
generated version that applied a similar logic

https://median.newmediacaucus.org/blog/current-issue-fall-2012-v-08-n-02-december-2nd-2012/routing-mondrian-the-a-michael-noll-experiment/

*In an attempt to avoid debate or provoke the displeasure of his employer,
Bell Telephone Laboratories, he called his creations ‘patterns’ rather than
‘art.’ This more innocuous term, however, did not hide the importance this
simple memo held for the history of art. Even then, this young scientist
sensed the significance of his discovery, foreseeing that a new type of
artist, the “artist-programmer” as he imagined, would one day generate
“true art.”[2] Beyond defining this emergent medium, Noll viewed the
computer as the ultimate research tool, an instrument with the power to
explore the production and reception of art. [3] For other scientists and
engineers at Bell Labs, Noll’s memo raised important questions about the
nature of art. Could the human aesthetic response be finally decoded, or
could aesthetic art objects be digitally encoded, or, with more
far-reaching consequences, could synthetic forms of creativity exist
independent of humans? ­­­­ *

AND
*mimicking the Turing Test, the subjects were to identify which picture
they thought was human made and which was computer-generated. As an added
dimension, which placed the experiment somewhere between applied visual
psychology and experimental aesthetics, the questioner asked which picture
they preferred. The results showed that 59% of the subjects preferred the
computer-generated image and only 28% were able to identify correctly the
picture produced by Mondrian. *