Resistance
The harder questions about whether AI belongs in the art world at all.
AI and the Death of the Artist?
Why the panic is older than the technology, and what really changes when machines learn to render.
Is AI Creative, or Just Predictive Regurgitation?
The cleanest accusation against AI art is that it does not create — it only interpolates. The objection deserves patience, because it has something to it. But it collapses the moment we apply it symmetrically — to ourselves.
Is AI Affecting Artists' Livelihoods?
The previous article asked whether AI is creative. This one asks the harder question: regardless of whether AI is creative, is it taking work from people who used to be paid to make pictures? The honest answer is yes — in specific sectors, in measurable ways, on a faster timeline than any previous wave.
Is AI Art Plagiarism by Default?
The accusation is everywhere: AI art is plagiarism, the models are theft engines, and anyone who uses them is benefiting from stolen labor. The accusation is too broad to be true and too pointed to be ignored. Untangling it requires distinguishing two questions that the public conversation has been blurring together for three years.
Reflection
Conciliatory follow-ups — where does AI fit, and on what terms?
Practical Aspects
Ethics in practice — what working artists actually have to decide.
Who Profits When Machines Create?
Following the money in AI-art platforms: training data, model owners, working artists, and the gap between them.
When the AI Made Up a Story About Our Founder
A hallucination caught, a guardrail strengthened, and what this near-miss says about every AI-assisted publication on the web. The AI invented a relative in my voice while generating an AI-persona commentary for one of our articles; our editorial review process and human-in-the-loop caught it before publication. Here is exactly how the failure happened, how the layered audit held when one safeguard had regressed, and what every operation publishing AI-assisted content should learn from a near-miss most operations would never see.
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