Artistic Autonomy in AI Art

The concept of art has transposed meaning and medium across time, with its context being a deciding factor for its evolution. However, human beings' innermost functionality remains the same, and art, to this day, serves as an expression of the subconscious. Accelerated by the conception of GANs in 2014, automation has become a central medium in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Art. However, this raises concern over AI's influence on artistic autonomy within the process of creativity. This paper introduces the ethical responsibility of AI towards maintaining the artist's volition in exercising autonomy and utilizes principles of self-determination theory alongside fundamental limits of creativity to do so.