Fellow Artists, I'm Begging You to Pull Your Heads Out of the Sand About AI
An online experiment revealed that many people, including artists, could not distinguish a real Monet painting from AI-generated art, highlighting how advanced AI imagery has become. The incident sparked debate about the quality and implications of AI art, with some dismissing it while others acknowledged its technical proficiency. As AI tools produce increasingly convincing visuals and animations, the artistic community faces growing challenges in distinguishing human-made from machine-generated work.
- ▪A Twitter user tricked many people into believing a real Monet painting was AI-generated, exposing how difficult it is to tell the difference.
- ▪AI-generated animation has reached a level where it can mimic the visual style of professional studio productions, albeit with weaker storytelling and voice acting.
- ▪Common flaws in AI art, such as distorted hands or text, have been largely corrected, making detection significantly harder.
- ▪An AI-generated animated short created in a few hours using Runway received widespread attention for its production quality.
- ▪Even critics who mocked AI art acknowledged its rapid improvement, with some comparisons to low-budget European animated films that are commercially released.
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Fellow Artists, I’m Begging You to Pull Your Heads Out of the Sand About AII'm sorry, but it's not going awayfunplingsMay 14, 20261352ShareMonet, Claude. Water Lilies. 1915, Oil on canvas.Earlier this week, a Twitter user (@SHL0MS1) posted the following:𒐪@SHL0MSi just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting 7:20 PM · May 12, 2026 · 1.05M Views616 Replies · 176 Reposts · 2.46K LikesSome sample responses from the comments:the reflection in AI art is just noise splattered right. monet actually understood how light behaves on waterno frame, no sense of the threshold between subject and object, just colorsDepth, contrast, and cohesion are the most obvious.
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