Generative AI can evaluate and explain masterpieces at scale, yet it remains a paradoxical partner for the creators themselves. Using the works of Osamu Tezuka as a primary lens, this paper reveals a structural contradiction: AI recognizes "greatness" as a result but rejects the "messy" creative process necessary to achieve it. By introducing the Interior/Periphery model, the author argues that AI’s ethical and statistical constraints lead to a "flattening" of cultural resources—stripping away the provocative depth essential to creative cores. The paper concludes that to preserve cultural richness, AI must be strictly positioned at the periphery of creation, leaving the "un-AI-able" core to the human artist. Afterword AI recognizes Osamu Tezuka as a great creator. Yet at the same time, it rejects the very creative process that was necessary for his works to come into being. It can evaluate the work, but it refuses to support the act of making it. This tension becomes especially visible when ethical guardrails restrict specificity about individual episodes. In doing so, it quietly reveals how difficult it is to place AI at the core of creation.
Harvey Explorer (Wed,) studied this question.