The artifact isn't the art: Rethinking creativity in the age of AI
Things will appear simple or easily replicable on the surface.
You’ll hear people say:
“Anyone could’ve made that with ChatGPT.”
But the more and better access everyone has to tools, the clearer it becomes that the final bottleneck to great work is not knowledge or information. Heck it’s not even intelligence—it’s that elusive, intangible, sublime qua
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There is something unspoken lurking in the background of the most impassioned critiques of generative AI. Between the cries of plagiarism and unoriginal lazy mimicry is the fact that there is almost nothing original or unique about culture now in the first place. Putting aside the dangerous and ahistorical simplification of creativity as originalit... See more