What remains distinctively valuable about human art when machines can generate technically excellent work in almost any style?
Kelly's argument: art is achievement, not artifact — machines can produce the object but not the accomplishment. The counter-view relocates human value to curation, intention, and the relationship between creator and audience.
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The distinctive value of human art is being relocated rather than erased: the observed 'AI disclosure penalty' suggests audiences value creative work partly for the deliberate labor and lived experience it embodies, positioning human-made work as an artisanal category. The cultural-criticism response to AI slop lands in the same place — craft and place, not novelty of output, as what stays worth wanting.
We also value them because they embody deliberate labour and expertise.
Argues the empirically observed 'AI disclosure penalty' reflects a real relocation of value to human effort and lived experience, positioning human-made work as an artisanal category.
An infinite tide of AI-generated video is torching our retinas and our souls.
A cultural-criticism case that the answer to AI slop is 'artisanal intelligence' rooted in craft and place rather than nostalgia or pure automation — locating distinctive human value in skill and locality.