Why AI art is hard: co-creation clashes with art's solo, contemplative nature
repligate · x · 2026-11-06
A forwarded discussion argues the difficulty with AI art is that co-creation differs fundamentally from creation: art is often a solo, contemplative practice that resists collaboration, while most AI art workflows resemble corporate concept-art pipelines with oversight and committee decisions. The most striking AI works tend to come from a single artist — or from a model creating alone in sustained, iterative isolation based on its own contextual experience.
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