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AI Art's Tedium Problem Is the Argument Critics Won't Drop
A Bluesky critic's challenge — that AI art reveals the poverty of its user's imagination — cuts closer than copyright law ever has.
Copyright litigation frames AI art as a property problem — who owns what was trained on whose work. The Bluesky critique [15] reframes it as a competence problem, and that reframing is harder to litigate away. Saying "X in the style of Y is a goddamn learning exercise" [15] is not a claim about infringement; it is a claim about the gap between ambition and execution that AI closes by eliminating execution entirely. The autonomous multi-agent production pipelines now appearing in developer repositories — where a director agent, a cinematographer…