People think AI is honoring a dead artist by finishing their work, but it really just fakes their voice. You’re not getting their final vision, you’re getting a guess from a machine. That doesn’t complete the art—it replaces the artist with a copy.

Imagine a painter leaves a half-finished canvas, and a machine fills in the rest. It might match the brushstrokes, but it’s not their choice—it’s a guess. Fans aren’t getting closure, they’re getting a fake. Let the work end where the artist did.

Even if the artist wanted it finished, they didn’t leave a blueprint for how. The AI is just guessing what they might have done, and that’s not honoring their intent, it’s inventing it. You can’t ask the dead what they wanted, so claiming you’re fulfilling their wish is just a story we tell ourselves.