AI can make you more creative—but it has limits
I think that the appearance of generative AI with its seemingly magical abilities to unleash the creative beast lurking inside all of us has broken our brains a little bit and it has become difficult to think straight when it comes to the intersection of the technology and humanity and what being creative involves.
John Warner • Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
If what you want is a content-marketing blog post that serves more to incrementally improve Google search results than to be read by an actual human, AI might help. If you want to think deeply through a subject and synthesize knowledge, then communicate that knowledge to others, it’s going to be better if you just struggle through the painful proce... See more
Kyle Chayka • My writing robot
a large group of creative humans will usually generate a wider diversity of ideas8 than the AI. All of this suggests that humans still have a large role to play in innovation … but that they would be foolish not to include AI in that process, especially if they don’t consider themselves highly creative.
Ethan Mollick • Co-Intelligence
The incident once again highlights a common problem with all generative AI tools: whether it’s AI-generated images, music, or writing, these works are inherently derivative because anything they produce is made up of remixed pieces of work in the training data.
Emanuel Maiberg • Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App
Generative AI has the capability to collaborate with humans in the creative process, which is one of its most compelling aspects.
ModernMind Publications • Generative AI for Beginners Made Easy: Master Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Fundamentals, Learn Creative AI, and Enhance Your Skills With Interactive Real-World Exercises
For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non-geniousness, but those barriers and climbing them is the work of creativity. The goal isn’t to become a genius. It’s to do the work.
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.