You will learn the small physical and visual tells that separate a handmade piece from one produced or finished with AI assistance. By the end, you will know which questions to ask a maker or seller before you buy.
You will get a short, practical checklist to run through before adding any AI tool to your workflow. By following it, you will keep your own visual voice recognisable across your body of work.
You will see a plain comparison of the main AI image tools, based on what they're actually good at rather than marketing claims. You'll be able to pick a tool that fits a specific task instead of trying to find one that does everything.
You'll understand why curators and collectors still ask about process and provenance even as digital tools become common. You will leave with a clearer sense of what 'hand-made' is actually protecting.
You will learn the practical steps you can take today to make your published artwork harder to scrape for AI training. You'll also understand the limits of these tools, so you don't rely on them alone.
You will get a clear, practical way to separate tools that assist your own decisions from tools that make the decisions for you. This distinction will help you describe your own work honestly, to galleries, clients or yourself.
You'll trace how earlier tools, from the camera to the synthesiser, unsettled and then reshaped what artists did, and see the pattern AI is now repeating. This context will make current debates feel less unprecedented and easier to think through.
You'll meet five Glasgow-based makers and see the specific, practical choices each has made about AI in their own workshop. You can use their decisions as a working model for your own practice, whatever you make.
You will walk through a short checklist to go over with a client before any AI tool touches a paid commission. This keeps expectations clear on both sides and avoids disputes once the work is delivered.
You'll see the specific, practical reasons slow, manual processes still hold value even when faster tools exist, beyond nostalgia. You'll also get a clearer sense of when choosing the slow route genuinely serves the work, and when it's just habit.
Humanis