Notes from Urticad
Journal
English and Chinese writing on products, provenance, technology and independent company building.
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AI Disclosure Should Describe the Creative Process, Not Flatten It
“Made with AI” sounds like disclosure. In practice, it often conceals as much as it reveals. The phrase can describe a work generated from a short prompt, a photograph selectively extended with a generative tool, a film whose frames were edited by several models, or an installation in which an artist trained a system, designed…
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AI-Assisted Art Needs Better Questions Than ‘Made by AI?’
The question “Was this made by AI?” sounds precise. In practice, it can describe almost nothing. One artist may use a generative model to produce an entire starting image. Another may train a small model on a hand-built dataset, select a fragment, repaint it and rebuild the composition manually. A third may use an AI…
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Digital Art Needs a Lifecycle Record, Not a One-Off Certificate
A work that can be copied, resized and re-encoded needs more than a badge at sale. It needs a durable operational record that travels from studio to gallery, institution and collector.
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Digital Art Provenance in the AI Era: C2PA and Creator Protection
A practical guide to digital art provenance, C2PA Content Credentials, invisible watermarking and AI-era creator protection for artists and collectors.