Tommy Dixon on Substack
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Tommy Dixon on Substack
People keep asking me about AI and I really think how you feel about AI comes down to whether you believe art is about producing things (images, objects, data files, “content”) or about a way of operating in the world as an intellectual, spiritual, and emotional creature.
Austin Kleon • AI can’t kill anything worth preserving - Austin Kleon
"All AI art can really do is add more voiceless noise to the world of relentlessly churning cheap content. If you're a part of that machine then yes AI will inevitably steamroll you, but if you're not it will accentuate your value as a singular voice a person who has something worth saying."
— Mango Street vid on YT h/t to Justin Mather in the Subst
... See moreAI now promises results without the reckoning, but frictionless creation leads to weightless rewards. No one dreams of merely pushing a button to generate their magnum opus. The struggle is what makes it count, what gives it weight.1
Anu Atluru • Make Something Heavy
Art, AI, and the Courage to Create
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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