The Policy
Artheon Museum hosts 790,000+ artworks from seven world museums alongside the galleries of living artists. Those artist galleries are for human-made art. AI-generated images presented as artworks are not accepted: every upload carries an attestation — “created by me, not AI-generated” — and works that violate this policy may be removed.
Where We Draw the Line
The line is pragmatic, not purist. Generative tools used as minor assistance are fine:
- Cleanup and retouching
- Upscaling
- Color correction
Works whose imagery is substantially machine-generated are not. If a person made the image, it belongs here; if a model made the image, it doesn’t — however it was prompted, curated, or finished afterward.
Why a Museum Draws This Line
A museum’s promise to its visitors is that the label on the wall is true. The works we host from the MET, the Rijksmuseum, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Belvedere, the Smithsonian, and the Cleveland Museum of Art carry that promise, and the living artists who show alongside them deserve the same. When you stand in front of a work on Artheon, you know a person made it. This is a statement about what our collection is, not a campaign against anything — it simply would not be a museum of human art otherwise.
Where AI Does Appear on Artheon
Artheon itself uses AI for interpretive text: artwork summaries and artist biographies are AI-written, labeled as such, and never presented as artwork. That is the same intellectual honesty this policy asks of artists — say what a thing is, and let it be judged as that.
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The binding version of this policy lives in our Terms of Service. If you make human-made art and want to show it here, see Artheon for artists.