On Dall.E, the now open-source Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that generates art from the prompts you feed it, one of the most popular phrases is ‘Schrödinger’s cat’. In its simplest terms, Schrödinger’s cat illustrates a contradiction, a predicament with uncertain consequences. It is satisfyingly apt that a thought experiment used to reference a paradox is a popular keyword in an AI-art platform. For generative artificial intelligence is creating the kind of churn and uncertainty in the art world that was perhaps last witnessed when photography became big and artists worried paintings would be obliviated. But the fact is, artists have…