Two writing prompts
“You feel differently towards the world when you make things.”
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But did I really make anything? Or did I just consume via prompts? That distinction - between creation and consumption used to feel obvious. Am I filming or watching a movie? Now it doesn’t.
As generative tools become faster, more aesthetic, more automatic, “creation” starts to feel like consumption. Creative tools stop behaving like neutral platfor... See more
As generative tools become faster, more aesthetic, more automatic, “creation” starts to feel like consumption. Creative tools stop behaving like neutral platfor... See more
Creation becomes consumption
It seems impossible. But then again, aren’t all creative undertakings rooted in processes that remain mysterious to the creator? Artists have long understood that making is an elusive endeavor, one that makes the artist porous to larger forces that seem to arise from outside herself.