I spent years learning to draw, and I still remember the first time my hand cramped from holding a pencil too long. That struggle is part of what makes art meaningful. AI doesn't struggle. It doesn't choose, fail, or grow. The core issue is attribution. When an AI generates an image, who gets the award? The programmer who wrote the code? The user who typed a prompt? The millions of artists whose work was scraped for training data without consent? You can't hand a trophy to a statistical model. Awards celebrate human intent, effort, and perspective. They're about the person behind the work. AI art removes that person. It's like giving a marathon medal to someone who took a taxi. The result might look similar, but the process and meaning are fundamentally different. Art without authorship isn't art. It's output.

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