Art and AI — Why I Believe True Creativity Belongs to Humans

In recent years, AI has advanced at astonishing speed, creating images, music, and even choreography. With these developments, some people have begun to ask: Will AI eventually surpass human artists? Personally, I don’t think so. No matter how powerful technology becomes, I believe AI cannot truly replace art.

The reason is that AI does not “create” in the same way humans do. What it actually does is store enormous amounts of data—artworks, songs, designs, and performances that people have already made—and then recombine or reassemble them into something that appears new. In other words, AI is very good at moving from “1 to 10,” or “11 to 20.” But to me, that remains an extension of what already exists. It is not the same as going from “0 to 1,” which I see as the essence of true art.

For humans, creating art is precisely that act of bringing something into existence that has never been seen before. The first step into the unknown—that spark of originality—is what I consider the heart of creativity.

When people create, it is never just a pattern or a clever combination. They pour their emotions, experiences, struggles, and contradictions into the work. Art captures a moment in history, a cultural atmosphere, or an intimate personal feeling. AI, on the other hand, cannot experience heartbreak, fall deeply in love, or wrestle with questions of identity. It cannot feel the silence before stepping onto a stage, or the fear and joy of exposing one’s inner self to an audience.

That said, I don’t believe AI has no place in art. On the contrary, I see it as a powerful tool—something that can expand possibilities, support idea generation, and make creative processes more efficient. But the starting point of art—the impulse to create “something from nothing”—will always begin in the human heart.

For this reason, I see the future of art not as a choice between humans and AI, but as a reminder of what only humans can do: to imagine, to feel, and to transform the unseen into something real. To me, art begins where data ends.