AI vs. human authorship in paintings: Differential impacts on consumers' perceived value Guangdong Provincial Graduate Education Innovation Program Project: Research on the Evaluation Index System for Practical Innovation Ability of Professional Degree Graduate Students (2024JGXM-076)
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) art generators has introduced algorithmically created paintings into mainstream consumer markets, yet consumers consistently assign lower value to AI-generated works than to human-created equivalents. This paper proposes perceived creative authenticity---consumers' subj...