consciousness depicted in these artworks”. Regardless of the current differences in framing the underlying process as
advanced imitation or autonomous creativity, studying attitudes towards AI Art is an important novel research direction
that can have strong implications on our general understanding of creativity. For example, an recent study by Wu et al.
[124] examined the explicit and implicit perceptions of AI-generated poems and paintings in the U.S. and China. The
results of this study suggest that participants from the U.S. were more critical of the AI- than the human-generated
content, both explicitly and implicitly. Chinese subjects were generally more positive about the AI-generated content,
although they also appreciated human-authored content more than AI-generated. Previous studies also conﬁrmed a
negative bias in perception of AI-generated content in relation to human-made content [65, 101]. Besides exploring
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