The Caveman and the Machine Under an AI-generated image captioned “This is art,” someone commented: > “If the internet goes down, how are you going to create art, Mr. Artist?” Another user replied: > “We also have offline models. If your graphics card is strong enough, that’s the answer.” The first commenter responded again: > “They’re too lazy to do that.” This is a perfect example of a common fallacy — when an argument collapses under a single fact, the speaker quickly shifts to something irrelevant. The supposed laziness of users has nothing to do with whether AI can function without the internet. If your core argument against AI-generated art is that it depends on infrastructure, then you must also address what happens when that dependence is removed. Otherwise, you haven’t disproven that AI art is art — you’ve only exposed a weakness in your reasoning. It’s ironic, really: people criticizing artificial intelligence often display more logical flaws than the software t...