Art Is Art: Standing Proud in the Face of AI Criticism
By Sean Twisted: A brush doesn't paint the masterpiece by itself. A piano doesn't magically compose a sonata while you're off at the store. A camera doesn't aim itself & frame the perfect shot. Artists do. So why are we suddenly pretending that AI tools are somehow different? I've been bothered by this double standard for a while now. When people dismiss creative works as "AI slop" simply because artificial intelligence was used as a tool in the process, they're missing something fundamental: AI is just the instrument, not the artist. The art still belongs to its human creator. This attitude cuts through the noise around AI-assisted creativity and exposes a double standard that's actually quite toxic to creators. The Elephant in the Room One of the most common criticisms leveled at AI-assisted art is that "AI learns from copyrighted material." Critics act as if this fundamentally taints any creation that comes fr...
