08/10/2025
AI Art Is Not Real Art
I appreciate that AI is an interesting and potentially useful tool. It can absolutely be used for good — for inspiration, exploration, or learning.
However, in the art industry, there has been a growing trend of people relying solely on AI to "create" art. Some even go as far as tracing AI-generated images, editing videos to hide the AI origin, to present it as their own work — a lot of the time even selling it. These practices are misleading and dishonest. Inexperienced users such as these often overlook inconsistencies in anatomy or details, which exposes the lack of real artistic knowledge behind the work.
Using AI as a tool to imagine ideas or assist your learning is fine — as long as you are not claiming the work as your own creation. Claiming AI-generated work as your own or profiting from it undermines artists who have spent years honing their skills. It is unfair, unethical, and harms a community built on dedication, patience, and creativity.
Artists who create from imagination and develop their craft themselves invest immense time, effort, and creativity. Technology should never replace the human effort that makes art unique — and the increasing reliance on AI risks phasing out genuine handmade art entirely.
If you use AI for personal enjoyment, exploration, or learning, that is your choice. But please educate yourself about the real impacts of AI: environmental, ethical, and artistic. Misrepresenting AI work as human-created art is not just dishonest — it contributes to the erosion of a hardworking creative community.
True art comes from learning, practice, patience, and personal creativity. No AI prompt can replace that.
