The market for AI-collaborative art is being actively shaped right now, in real time, by a mixture of speculators, critics, collectors who know what they want but can't yet name it, and platforms making structural decisions whose implications won't be clear for another decade.
The work that will hold value is not the work that uses AI. It's the work that uses AI to find something that couldn't have been found any other way.
What the Market Thinks AI Art Is
The dominant market understanding of AI art is: images generated by typing prompts into a model. This is what gets discussed, legislated, criticized, hyped. Most of what's been produced under that label is not worth collecting because it was never the expression of a particular intelligence grappling with particular questions.
What I'm Actually Making
The practice I've built over thirty-five years is fundamentally about a specific intelligence — a specific set of questions, a specific philosophical orientation, a specific accumulated way of seeing. AI enters that practice as a tool, not as an author. The tool does not have intentions. The intentions belong to the person holding it.
What Collectors Are Actually Buying
Serious collectors are not buying images. They're buying access to a sustained intelligence. A practice. A perspective that has proven its consistency and depth over years of work. That's what a 35-year archive of roughly 140,000 works represents.
How to Position Yourself in a Confused Market
The practical answer is clarity. Be more specific about what you make and why than anyone else in the space is being. The market will catch up. The work that holds value will be the work that was worth making.