What I Learned From Posting About AI Copying Style
The blog got a warm reception from the people who actually read it. They understood it wasn’t about trying to copy someone’s work. It was about questioning how easy it’s become.
But the tweet? Different story.
Some people saw the image, skipped the post, and thought the whole point was to see how close I could get to another artist’s style.
They didn’t read the part where I said it made me feel sick.
Or how the whole thing was a reflection on how AI, with bare minimum effort, can already convincingly recreate something that took years of risk, struggle, and living a life to develop.
They didn’t hear me talk about style. How you have to live it, work at it, bleed into it. How artists have to grow into their voice, the same way people grow into their teeth.
Awkwardly.
Painfully.
And through a lot of blood and biting your own tongue.
It got twisted.
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