Mar 31, 2025
Prompted Vision
That gut feeling - that AI-generated art doesn't feel like yours - comes from a shift in how we define creativity, not a lack of it. But creativity has never been about tools.
Photographers don't build lenses. Filmmakers don't engineer cameras. Designers don't invent Figma. Yet no one questions whether their work is “theirs.” Because their fingerprints are all over it - what they chose to include, exclude, highlight, or distort. Intent is the signature.
AI doesn't change that. The interface got smarter. You're choosing the vibe, the story, the style, the framing. That's direction. That's creation.
If anything, AI just exposed how addicted we were to the romantic struggle of the process. But real creative work is about judgment, not just labour. You made the call. You made the thing.
It's yours.
Or is it?
Photographers don't build lenses. Filmmakers don't engineer cameras. Designers don't invent Figma. Yet no one questions whether their work is “theirs.” Because their fingerprints are all over it - what they chose to include, exclude, highlight, or distort. Intent is the signature.
AI doesn't change that. The interface got smarter. You're choosing the vibe, the story, the style, the framing. That's direction. That's creation.
If anything, AI just exposed how addicted we were to the romantic struggle of the process. But real creative work is about judgment, not just labour. You made the call. You made the thing.
It's yours.
Or is it?
About Max Antonov
I’m Max, a father of two, Product Director & Product Coach from Sydney. I write about leadership, product management
and life.
Feel free to reach out: [email protected].
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