AI is not the problem

There’s a lot of tension around AI in the arts.
Some people love it. Some people hate it.

I understand both sides.

What matters to me is working with contemporary languages, and staying curious about how they change.

If I had made music in the 80s, I’m pretty sure I would have dropped bass and guitar pretty quickly to “steal” sounds with samplers. Not because it was easier, but because it opened a different way of thinking, composing, and listening.

Of course, AI is not the same as sampling in the 80s.
The ethical and economic implications are different, and much heavier.

Right now, we’re in a kind of far west. An almost anarchic phase, where images that were protected by copyright until yesterday can suddenly be generated, transformed, and used in absurd or unexpected ways.

This won’t last forever.
Regulations will arrive. Economic partitions. Royalties. Compensations for involved artists. Systems will stabilize.

But for now, it’s raw. Unclear. Punk.
And like many early phases of technology, it’s uncomfortable, problematic, and strangely fertile at the same time.

That experimental phase of new technologies is what interests me most. The moment when tools are unstable, imperfect, and not yet standardized. That’s usually when new languages appear.

At the same time, a big part of my practice is rooted in books. Printed on paper. Slow. Physical. Almost stubbornly low-tech.

Yes, that’s a contradiction.

But I don’t see contradictions as a problem. I see them as a productive space. A place where tension creates questions, and questions create movement.

AI doesn’t replace what I do.
It challenges it.
Sometimes it clashes with it.
Sometimes it opens unexpected paths.

And that friction is what makes the journey more interesting.

I don’t think we need to love AI.
I don’t think we need to reject it either.

For me, the important thing is to stay attentive. To use tools consciously. To understand “why” we use them, not just “how”.

As a contemporary artist/designer, I don’t see my task as defending old forms or blindly celebrating new ones, but as staying awake while languages shift.

That’s all.