What's next, having AI finish half-eaten sandwiches because the original chef passed away mid-bite? Oh wait, that's just leftovers. But dead artists' unfinished works are not leftovers - they're creative snapshots frozen in time. When you let a studio train an algorithm on someone's style to complete their final piece, you're not honoring them. You're building a puppet with their face.
Art isn't just about how something looks. It's about the choices the artist made - and didn't make. Those unfinished brushstrokes, those blank stanzas, those half-written melodies? They're not bugs. They're features. They show us where the artist stopped, and that stopping point has meaning.
Studios see dead artists as intellectual property mines. But the work is personal, not product. Let the unfinished stay unfinished. It's not a bug in the system - it's the system itself.
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