Do People Actually Prefer AI-Generated Animation Over Animation Created by Human Artists?

As an animator working with Voxaryn Studio, this is something I have been thinking about lately.

AI is changing the animation industry, and I think it raises an interesting question: When people watch an animation, do they care about how it was made, or do they only care about what they see on the screen?

Creating animation manually takes time, patience, creativity, and a lot of technical skill. Every movement, expression, camera angle, and scene can involve hours of work. AI tools can make some parts of the process faster, and I understand why creators are interested in using them.

But I also believe animation is about more than making something move. It is about bringing characters to life, communicating emotions, telling stories, and making people feel something.

At the same time, I don't think using AI automatically makes someone a bad animator, just as working manually doesn't automatically make someone a great one. What matters is the quality of the work, the creativity behind it, and the intention of the creator.

What I really want to know is this: If you watched two equally entertaining animations, one created primarily by a human animator and the other generated with AI, would knowing how they were made change your preference?

Would you choose the animation made by an artist who spent weeks bringing every scene to life, or the one created with AI that achieved a similar result in much less time?

I would genuinely like to hear what viewers, animators, and animation enthusiasts think. Is the future of animation about replacing traditional skills, combining them with AI, or finding a balance between the two?