The AI Conversation

The AI Conversation #2: Every New Tool Was Called Cheating

Comic page showing angry crowds through history rejecting photography, synthesizers, drum machines, digital art, Photoshop, CGI, autotune and AI tools, with a raccoon narrating that the tool never makes the artist.

Photography, 1839. Synthesizers. Drum machines. Digital art. Photoshop. CGI. Autotune. Every one of them was going to kill real art, and every time the tools stayed, the art evolved, and the humans adapted. A hammer doesn't build a home; a carpenter does.