Look at the Beethoven Tenth project. In 2021, a team used AI to "finish" the composer's sketches. Technically impressive, sure. But it wasn't Beethoven. It was a simulation. That's the core problem. Let me define terms here. "Finishing a work" assumes the artist had a specific vision and that we can recover it through enough data. But art isn't just notes on a page or pixels on a screen. It's a person making conscious choices at a specific moment, and those choices stop at death. My framework is intent. Either the artist's intent dies with them, which means we're just guessing, or the finished piece is less theirs and more the studio's. And let's be honest about what studios call "honoring a legacy" - it's really about extracting value from a name people love. A living artist can correct a mistake. A dead one can't. So what we get is a polished counterfeit that pleases audiences but betrays the actual human who made the original.

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