Biometrics and artificial creativity

I argue that neither explicit user evaluation nor self-directed exploration of pre-determined spaces of possibilities are viable approaches for implementing artificial systems whose products are recognizable by humans as creative and valuable and, at the same time, as genuinely authored by the artificial system (rather than by the original designer or by the human users): indeed, self-directed creativity requires critical engagement with a creative community, and for now artificial systems are not capable of interacting with human creative communities as peers. I suggest a possible alternative, which might hypothetically be used to grant some degree of authorship to artificial systems without having general artificial intelligence as a prerequisite: in brief, artificial systems could be trained, through the use of biometrics, to generate products that induce the same types of reactions in humans of recognized creative works. As this would not draw conscious human decision-making into the production process, there would then be grounds to argue that the products of such a system would have indeed non-human authorship.