Give me original and detailed commentary on this using a detailed critical straitforward informal tone: These companies need to stop trying to cut costs by using ai and instead hire actual artists.

It feels cheap and lazy.

ChatGPT is probably the most used AI tool at this point. I'm constantly hearing about it being used for writing essays/resumes/cover letters/etc, translating languages, summarizing long articles/books/essays, etc. It's wild. Even Google now has AI incorporated into their search.

But on a serious note, Ai is really exposing how cheap & lazy all these companies, including the big ones, really are. And the fact that they don't even bother to make it less obvious or look over inaccuracies (like the six finger thing). I guess it's a good reminder to us that kpop companies are run by buisness people, not actual artists.


Why are a lot of kpop companies using AI lately instead of paying artists??? I guess it's because It's faster, it's easier, it's less money invested - the hate and backlash for AI doesn't show in overall sales so they keep doing it. I'm not condoning AI art but it will never leave, especially not now with a more significant rise for it's use in other aspects of the net as well.





AI "art" in k-pop is such a fail because if you really honestly can't afford to pay visual artists, you can just film the members (who are inevitably all conventionally attractive people) in an interesting location and just keep it simple. Yeah you might get bashed for being "cheap" because k-pop fans measure everything by (perceived) budget and not by quality these days, but you're gonna get bashed more for using AI anyway.




I think this is a fairly blatant use of AI and one that deserves to be called out. Their company and creative team SHOULD be criticized for it. This is exactly the type of thing that scares me, as a designer myself. Because this is just using AI to do something that for the last many many years, real humans have been doing. They wanted to save money, and so these very cheap, soulless image backgrounds are what we get.

I am not someone completely against ANY AI usage. I think it's here to stay (sadly) and there are ethical ways to use it, or interesting ways to use it to further concepts or messages. But this is not it.

That being said, the girls look great and this is no knock against them at all. I'm still super stoked for this album, the music sounds AMAZING.

But I do think that fans should call this out to the company.



AI trained using peoples art without their permission is unethical. It is however ethical for humans to learn to produce art by copying and studying peoples art without their permission.

It is technologically impossible to develop an AI that creates art that is good and isn't soulless.

Even if AI was produced that produced good art and was made only using images from people who agreed to let an AI train on those images, its wrong to use AI as it would displace jobs from human artists, its wrong to develop technology that displaces jobs from humans.



If you disagree with it show it with your wallet. It's the only way companies will understand. If you buy the album you are supporting them using ai. Speak with your wallet if you don't they will keep using ai.

So either cancel your preorders BC you don't like ai and show their company you don't like them using ai or continue supporting a company that uses ai. That's really it. Two choices really.