Comments on: Counterfeit Creativity: The High Cost of Cheap Art

By: KiM

KiM — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:40:04 +0000

As a photographer, writer and book cover designer- I couldn’t agree more. On a personal note, not work related AI was helpful on some medical issue a few weeks ago so I tried using Gemini to help with a vacation. After more time spent, than we’ll be on vacation for, I’m back to planning it the old fashioned way. AI got tides, sunset, sunrise, closures and locations wrong. It added days to my efforts. That’s not even creative it’s fact based and I even told it to verify facts.

By: Beth Brubaker

Beth Brubaker — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:38:35 +0000

Nailed it! I’m a writer and a fabric artist, and everyday I see videos and reels of absolutely GORGEOUS denim bags (something I make also) and she clearly used AI, but didn’t care that the bags were too perfect, the fabrics didn’t move, and she walked through a table after picking up a matching dress that ‘happened’ to go from holding to wearing. And as she bent down to pick up a matching hat, the hat ‘magically’ popped onto her head.
Yet people loved her ‘work’ and were asking how much for her ‘art’. *shudder*

I have to admit though, it did give me some cool ideas for my bags…lol!

There was not art in it, but people didn’t care-or at least they don’t until they get a not-so-artful product in their mail.

I feel real artisans will become extinct in the near future, because AI took the effort needed for the catapillars to become butterflies…

By: Roger L Nay

Roger L Nay — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:39:33 +0000

I still think AI fiction is stiff. However, I recently used an AI critique and was stunned. It’s not quite on par with an experienced writer, but AI is catching up fast when it comes to evaluating fiction.

By: Kristen Lamb

Kristen Lamb — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:06:09 +0000

In reply to Lora. You are 100% correct and we WILL be talking more about this.

By: Lora

Lora — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:41:14 +0000

Something that is worse than AI to me is this. Many highly acclaimed authors who win awards and sell tons of books–that they wrote, not AI–are terrible writers. I’ve struggled through award-winning books and never finished. Or threw them away (after flinging them across the room). There are VERY few writers I enjoy reading anymore. And most of those write in predictable formulas since they found their niche. This has been going on for quite a while–before generative AI was accessible. Personally, I think true unique creativity is extremely rare and doesn’t get noticed at all. The world is glutted with junk-food art, with or without AI.

By: C. Love

C. Love — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:21:08 +0000

Yup, you’ve pretty much summed up my own take on the topic. But this seems to cut down generational lines. Sadly the younger generations have no context/basis for comparison to discern from. It’s all just fine and dandy in their world. I hope the pendulum does swing and that there are enough people left with the wherewithal to give it the sufficient shove. I doubt I’ll be around to witness it. All we can do is try to hold the line in our own sphere. I’ve given up sounding the alarm. I’m no Luddite but I may as well be a dinosaur as far as most people are concerned for holding this point of view.

By: Shayne Huxtable

Shayne Huxtable — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:46:09 +0000

Over the target on this subject. I won’t touch AI. It’s a beast that’s destroying peoples’ ability to think. If the brain isn’t exercised it atrophies. I don’t waste my time reading contemporary books these days. I go back to the blokes who wrote last century. Thoroughly enjoyed this. Shayne

By: Lucas Palhão

Lucas Palhão — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:10:18 +0000

I have to confess here (and I do so to all my readers – don’t mean to fool anyone): I’ve been using AI to write fiction.

I’m a father to 5 children, I need to take care of my wife, my house, while I work my 9-to-5 engineering job (which usually goes beyond its limits)…

But I still have too many ideas I’d like to turn into fiction and I’ve seen far too many of them become lost in my own mind…

Then, I’ve started discussing with AI, asking for text, rejecting some, tailoring another part, throwing it all into the thrash bin, and starting over, and over, and over. It’s the only way my ideas will ever see the day of light.

I hope people could enjoy at least a little bit of it and find the humanity I still manage to sneak into my (can I call it mine?) fiction.

Thanks for the article!

By: N. E. White

N. E. White — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:51:35 +0000

I agree that the world is moving on. I’m at an age where I write because that’s what I want to do. Will anyone read? Probably not. I’ll continue to seek out writing and art that a real person made because it means something to me. Will it mean something to a younger generation? Probably not. But that’s their problem (if it’s a problem for them).

By: T. K. Thorne

T. K. Thorne — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:02:40 +0000

Agree. It is demoralizing. BUT we were told that print books would die, prints would kill art, vinyl records would be gone forever. Yet we still treasure the”hand painted” crafts (regardless if it is real, as las we think it is real. ). I’ve always understood my chance of making a living as a writer is practically nil. So what do i have left- only the process of seeking excellence, which is what i started with.