How to Survive as a Human Creator in the AI Era

Use the tools if you must. But a better use of your extra energy — such as it is — is to live the gap between human and AI. Can an AI gather, synthesize, calculate, and even speculate faster than we can? Yes. Can it do all those things better than we can? Maybe. Can it be more interesting, unexpected, artful, or meaningful? Well that’s just a matte... See more

Where and how will humans show the eminence of our species when AI becomes better than us at everything? I feel sort of desperate for some human-centric optimism here because the whole project of being human feels really weird as our specialness becomes automated.  

A couple of observations. First, I do think the last mile is the most difficu

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Creators are thinking about AI the wrong way. Most creators are attracted to AI because they can use it to emulate the work of creators who have more resources. Finally – an equalizer! When that becomes true, when you CAN emulate the work of bigger creators, those creators will just adapt. They will innovate and create content that once again c... See more

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.