Ego trip? Or shabby excuse?

It occurred to me just now that we need not fear AI art will take over human creativity. AI combines a multitude of images to create an image it believes it has been prompted to create. Without real experience, without a body and its own senses, wants and aversions, It will not create its own, it will only recombine images made by men. Perhaps this changes when we get sentient self contained robots, but that day has yet to come.

What really interested the narcissist in me is that during the last decade I have been aping the AI way of making art in my own self contained bubble. Over the past ten years or so I've painted rarely. Instead I've been tracing my old paintings in Illustrator using bézier graphics, a time consuming process, taking sometimes twice as long as it does to make the original painting.

At first I made prints with the resulting vectors, sometimes creating variations in color, sometimes using just a small part of a larger piece. As I gained more of these vectors I began to put them to other uses, a lamp shade, a relief made from laser cut plywood, Patterns for clothes.

So It occurred to me I have become my own AI, refining and perfecting with technology, tweaking and repurposing but relying on the same finite well of created work. The ego trip would be my realization that as an artist I have achieved my purpose of reflecting the world prophetically over the past decade, or is this all just a shabby excuse for the fact I haven't been doing much painting lately? AI art, creative process, painting vector, creative dilemma, shabby excuse, fine art blog,