Art is dead. Thanks, AI.

Tools do not end art, but they do change which decisions remain valuable. When production becomes abundant, taste, selection, context and responsibility become harder to fake. The interesting question is not whether machines create—it is whether people still choose deliberately.

The useful question

The point is not to replace one visual rule with another. It is to ask whether the decision still carries meaning after the trend, tool or presentation effect has disappeared.

Design becomes useful when the visible gesture and the system underneath it agree. Taste starts the conversation; consequences decide whether the work lasts.