Why We Started Writing About This

Humanis started because two of us, one an arts journalist and one a working illustrator, kept reading the same tired argument about AI and art, written by people who had clearly never picked up a brush or opened an image generator themselves. Most of what we found online was either blind panic or blind hype, rewritten from the same three press releases. We wanted something closer to the ground: writers who actually talk to artists, visit studios, and sit with the tools before forming an opinion.

So we built a small, slow editorial process instead of a fast one. Every essay gets a second editor's read before it's published, checking the argument as closely as the facts, and we'd rather miss a trending topic than run something half-thought-through. We work directly with the writers and artists we feature, not through agencies or syndication deals, so what you read has actually been checked by someone who was in the room.

We also try to run this the way we'd want a publication to treat us as readers: no hidden sponsorships, a named writer and editor on every piece, and a straightforward way to flag anything we got wrong. If you spot a mistake within 30 days of publication, tell us and we'll correct it on the page, not quietly edit it away. That's the whole deal.