Let's be clear about what "finish" even means here. A dead artist's unfinished work isn't just missing a few brushstrokes—it's incomplete because their life and creative process stopped. AI can only guess at what they'd have done, and that guess is really just the studio's preference dressed up as the artist. Once you frame it that way, the problem becomes obvious. We're not honoring the artist. We're overriding them. They left the work incomplete, possibly intentionally, and now we're letting a machine pretend to know their intention better than they did. That's not collaboration. That's erasure. Could AI produce something beautiful? Sure. But beauty isn't the only value. Authenticity matters. And no algorithm can capture the human uncertainty, the second-guessing, the lived experience that shaped how an artist actually worked. So no, I don't think studios should do this. Not now, not ever.

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