Quoting Neal Stephenson

If your only way of making a painting is to actually dab paint laboriously onto a canvas, then the result might be bad or good, but at least it’s the result of a whole lot of micro-decisions you made as an artist. You were exercising editorial judgment with every paint stroke. That is absent in the output of these programs.

— Neal Stephenson

artist canvas decisions editorial every generativeai good judgment least making micro paint painting stroke