Generative AI closes off a better future

Visions of dystopia are nothing if not plausible and realistic. We must also make just and liberated futures irresistible.

Human animals can and do change our stories. Tech and AI is part of that changing story – but unless we can change the fixed ideas in our heads, then tech and AI could easily become the dystopian disaster so many of us fear.

While I'm sympathetic to many already struggling creators who will find fewer commissions and opportunities, I also think the genie is out of the lamp on this one. While there are probably some legal, technological, and social mechanisms to slow the use of these tools—I've heard of calls to boycott AI generated art—we cannot stop their widespread u

“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.”

Ursula K. Le Guin