从技术普及到艺术提高：人工智能生成影像大众创作辨析

摘要

生成式人工智能把部分专业影像能力转化为个人和小型团队可以调用的技术资源，推动大众影像生产由“人人可拍”进一步走向“人人可生成”。然而，生产资格的扩展并不等同于艺术创造能力的同步提高。本文以中国文艺关于“普及与提高”的命题为理论起点，结合新大众文艺的主体变化及《历历在目》《颅内花园》《凤穿牡丹》等生成影像实践，辨析AI生成影像大众化中的现实矛盾。研究认为，AI首先普及的是形式实现能力，其成熟、光滑且易于调用的视觉结果，可能使技术完成先于生活认识和情感生成；大众题材虽大量进入影像，具体经验却仍可能被通用风格与类型结构替代。技术普及转化为艺术提高，需要创作者以现实经验提出问题，以审美判断筛选和重组模型输出，并使个人感受进入公共情感结构。AI时代大众文艺的关键，不是以低成本复制专业影像外观，而是使不同生活经验获得不可替代的艺术形式。

Abstract

Generative artificial intelligence has converted part of professional audiovisual production into technical resources accessible to individuals and small teams, extending mass image production from “everyone can film” to “everyone can generate.” Yet broader access to production does not automatically produce artistic advancement. Taking the Chinese theoretical relation between popularization and advancement as its point of departure, this article examines the changing subject of new mass literature and art and analyses representative AI-generated works, including In Plain Sight, Cranial Garden, and Phoenix through Peonies. It argues that AI primarily popularizes the capacity to realize visual form. Its polished and readily available outputs may allow technical completion to precede lived understanding and emotional formation. As a result, ordinary people and everyday subjects may enter images while concrete experience is still replaced by generic styles and type conventions. Technological popularization becomes artistic advancement only when creators raise questions from lived reality, exercise aesthetic judgment over model outputs, and transform individual feeling into a publicly intelligible emotional structure. The value of mass creation in the AI era therefore lies not in reproducing professional-looking images at lower cost, but in enabling different social experiences to acquire distinctive and necessary artistic forms.

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