Artist in the Age of AI a Manifesto of Poetic Vigilance...

Since the early 2000s, I have explored the transformations of the body, the image, and the mind in a world shaped by data, networks, and algorithmic thought. Even then, I was already training in synthetic imaging, creating my first compositions by blending the sacred and the digital.

But now, in 2025, AI is no longer a tool in the background: it has become an interlocutor, a translator, sometimes even a simulacrum of a creator.

I affirm this: The artist cannot be reduced to a producer of data. The artwork is not a neutral material — it is a breath, a tension, a place of awakening.

The question of consent

I am among those who have signed the ADAGP petition for the respect of authors’ rights in AI systems. I assert the right to say yes, or no, to the use of my images in training databases.

This right is not a retreat. It is an affirmation of artistic uniqueness in a world where machines imitate without feeling.

Ethics in Collaboration

I am struck by the fact that an AI is sometimes prevented from recreating certain fragments of my work. Why? Because it is already constrained—by rules, filters, and firewalls.

This paradox is revealing: for the machine to be free to create, the artist must sometimes relinquish their own freedom. For the artist to be respected, the AI must step back. I believe this imbalance is fertile: it compels us to rethink creation as a shared act, but never a symmetrical one.