I agree. I thnk alot of it won't be "known" unless someone is told Same with most of the art forms The common consumer won't go through the trouble of testing if it is AI or not Either they like it or they don't McDonalds out sells every Steakhouse Rocket River
I've gotten to the point where I'm more than just disdainful of AI slop, I actively don't give business to companies that use it. It's lazy, it's tone-deaf and it's cheap. You can get good quality affordable custom art on a site like Fiverr. Bottom line- people who don't understand art shouldn't be trying to replicate it. In other news, my day job company asked me to write a blog post. I guess they had issues with other people they asked either finding time or just doing a terrible job, so they offered to just interview me and listen to my old man stories which I was cool with. Then they came back with this AI written slop and expected me to put my name on it. I said nah I'll rewrite the entire thing. This is a marketing initiative and our marketing director should be aware of the backlash to AI generated things that usually come from a creative human process. In non-art related news, I was negotiating a payment on some business items with a partner of mine and he clearly used AI as his lawyer, and one of his AI-generated responses admitted I spent ~$5k on a business venture that he was trying to say that he didn't owe me. That admission combined with Texas law put him on the hook for that ~$5k, which was just part of the entire amount. Don't trust AI, folks. There are billions of idiots on the internet and their online output is being used to train AI on what is factual.
May not trust it but still use it Simply put . . .if its good its good If it is bad its bad The source is irrelevent. Rocket River
The issue is it isn't original - it builds upon other people's work without asking for permission or giving credit. DD
My issue is that AI Art is not innovative ... like you said ... it builds upon other people's work. Take an innovative artist like Eddie Van Halen. EVH created a guitar style that was crazy good and innovative. His style got copy catted by a legion of rock guitarists. The copied guitar work was not original and frankly not as good as EVH. Like those copy cat guitarists, AI Art is very derivative and not as good. AI Art can take all of Monet's work and create paintings in Monet's style but not of the same quality or originality. This is art for people to put on their walls of their first apartment. You can not get AI to generate a painting as innovative as Monet, Van Gogh et al .. .or write a poem/sonnet as innovative as Shakespeare ... or write a guitar solo as as innovative as EVH or ...
Gore Verbinski had some good thoughts recently about AI in cinema: https://variety.com/2026/film/global/gore-verbinski-ai-taormina-1236780502/
