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Bias against artificial intelligence in visual art: A meta-analysis.
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- Systematic review or meta-analysis
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become integral to many visual art practices. Audiences, however, may be biased against AI in visual art: knowing that AI was used in art creation can diminish aesthetic experience, independently of the objective qualities of an artwork. Whether this bias occurs structurally and across the systems involved in an aesthetic experience remains an open question. To address this, a meta-analysis was conducted. The results showed significant negative but small pooled effect sizes for d…
The problem
A meta-analysis of studies on audience responses found that knowing AI was used to make visual art lowered ratings, with a small negative effect for sensory-motor and emotion-valuation measures and a moderate one for knowledge-meaning measures.
What this doesn’t fix
Significant residual heterogeneity remained after moderator analyses, so the pooled effects do not apply uniformly across studies and contexts.
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1 on file- Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Artsdoi:10.1037/aca0000833
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v1Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-2723, v1: “Bias against artificial intelligence in visual art: A meta-analysis..” Truvace, 2026-11-12. /record/TRV-2026-2723 (accessed on the day you copy it). sha256 5cd87b9e6aa352a6…
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