I was half waiting for the newscaster to say, (reading from his teleprompter): Here we do everything live, and The Best Part... We're human! lol I did add this to my email monday... similar situation, Everyone slagging off AI - and then afterwards, discovering it wasn't AI: An artist called SHL0MS posted an image on X and said he’d generated it in the style of Claude Monet. https://x.com/SHL0MS/status/2054280631807316329 He then asked people to explain, in as much detail as possible, why the “AI image” was worse. And off they went. People called it emotionless. They called it slop. They picked apart the depth, the reflections, the layout, and all sorts of other bits. Only problem? It wasn’t AI. It was a real Monet. From his Water Lilies collection, dating back to around 1915. Oops. Now, the point here isn’t really about one painting. It’s about the reaction. Because for some people, the moment they think something is AI, they instantly look for reasons to dislike it. Before they judge the work. Before they look at the quality. Before they even know what they’re actually looking at. And that’s where it gets interesting. There was also research in 2024 from Norway suggesting that people may actually prefer AI art in some cases, but still show a negative bias once they know AI was involved. So maybe the real issue isn’t always the image, the words, the music, or the tool used. Maybe sometimes it’s the label. “AI.” And like it or not, that label is going to appear more and more in everyday life. So the real question might be... Are we judging the work? Or are we just reacting to the word? Food for thought, as they say.