Picture a half-finished painting of a sunset, the artist dead. A studio hires an AI to fill in the remaining strokes, then releases it as "completed by [artist's name]." That's not finishing a work—that's forging one. I need to be clear about what we're really debating here. "Finish" means completing what the artist intended. But the instant they die, that intent is unknowable. The AI isn't reading their mind; it's guessing based on patterns from other works. The result is a simulacrum dressed up as the real thing. And then there's the deception problem. People will buy that painting thinking it carries the artist's final vision. It doesn't. It carries a studio's commercial calculation. The framework I'm working with is simple: art is communication between a living creator and an audience. Remove the creator's agency, and you're not preserving their voice—you're stealing it. I'd rather see an unfinished canvas left as a monument to human limitation than patched over with counterfeit strokes. That's authenticity, and no algorithm can replace it.

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