AI Didn't Just Generate Images. It Contaminated a Vocabulary. We know AI image generators make mistakes. Extra fingers. Mismatched limbs. Garbled text. Melting backgrounds. Faces that are almost right but not quite. These artifacts are well-documented, widely mocked, and have become the shorthand for spotting AI-generated work. There's just one problem. Every single one of those "mistakes" has also been an intentional creative choice by human artists — for decades, sometimes centuries, before AI existed. And now those choices come with a credibility problem they didn't used to have. The Alien With Six Fingers Imagine a concept artist designing an alien species. They make a deliberate decision: five digits on the left hand, six on the right. Asymmetrical, subtly wrong by human standards, immediately communicating that this creature did not evolve the way we did. It's a small detail with real payoff — the kind of thing that rewards attentive viewers ...
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