The Next Art Label Might Be “Human-Made.”
Should “100% Human-Made” Become a Label on Artwork?
Honestly, the way things are moving these days, yes, probably.
Albeit initially, it’ll feel like an insult — having to prove your worth as an artist. The tag might feel like a CAPTCHA in real life: *Prove you’re human.* But with the advancement of AI, it is, in fact, getting tougher to differentiate between AI art and real art.
The clues to finding out AI art used to be in plain sight: perhaps an additional finger on a hand, or one less; a displaced shadow; an extra animal tail, or even multiple tails. But such things would also pass as a surreal Dalí painting, right?
Although the only difference would be that Dalí wouldn’t have used AI to generate art from a plagiarized art form.
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In the pursuit of perfection and trying to embody the greats, we’ve lost the race of individualism. Anyone is an artist, everyone is a writer, thanks to AI. So maybe a label saying “100% Human-Made” would not only become a necessity one day, but could also increase the value of your art.
In the near future, perhaps original opinions and ideas will be sold at a premium rate, much as handmade items have rightfully increased in value over the years. Because when machines can produce something beautiful in seconds, the time, thought, imperfection, and lived experience behind something human-made may become the real luxury.
But once again, it’s not us vs. AI. It’s us vs. the right use of a technology that should neither harm the planet nor our human capacity for critical thinking.
The irony? We may eventually need a label to prove that something came from the one thing AI still cannot genuinely live: a human life.
But when did we humans ever realize something before it was too late?
