Bob Ross specifically made his work accessible for people to begin creating art by demonstrating techniques and tools that were simple to build upon. AI erodes people's ability to even begin creating art. https://t.co/2KXCYAzxQV
— John Pickles (@IGdolljunk) May 23, 2026
I admit that I excitedly played around with Midjourney when it was released four years ago. But after a couple months, I walked away from it because it was not generating art, nor enabling my creativity. It was a slop machine, and even as AI tools' output has "improved", it still ain't art or creativity.
I think this is the best encapsulation:
"AI is data, and data can only look backward. Creativity looks forward"
A profound statement on the level I want to frame and hang on the wall
I do fancy myself as creative, but expression of such lies elsewhere. Yet I enjoy art despite my artistic ineptitude, or perhaps because of it, and long-time readers and family members know I adore Bob Ross for myriad reasons.
It is not impressive to me, beyond maybe the technical aspects (I am a geek, after all), that a computer can put a bunch of pixels together in a plausibly cohesive way at scale based on large sets of stolen data. Without consciousness, feelings, and a soul, it's all just soulless shit, and I do not see the fucking point of it. Rather than democratizing anything, it merely dilutes our perceptions of the world we uniquely engage with as human beings.
In conclusion: if you tell anyone that AI can create art, I will come to your house and I will cut you.
PS - I do think there are legit use cases for Pseudo Intelligence, which include coding, data analytics, and even learning augmentation. But an AI tool could never feed Peapod the squirrel with joy in its heart.
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