There's this idea floating around that using AI means you're somehow cheating the creative process or making it too easy.
But that's NOT how I use AI at all.
When I work with AI, I'm not checking out of the creative process. I'm fully in it—throwing questions, bouncing ideas,
️ Ev Chapman | Creative Entrepreneurx.comThere's this idea floating around that using AI means you're somehow cheating the creative process or making it too easy. But that's NOT how I use AI at all. When I work with AI, I'm not checking out of the creative process. I'm fully in it—throwing questions, bouncing ideas,
As calculators shifted math from rote computation to conceptual exploration, AI nudges creativity towards the uniquely human - the emotional, the ethical, the culturally resonant. It’s not a duel at dawn with paintbrushes or pianos but a partnership, with AI as the trusty sidekick, expanding the canvas of human expression.
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But here’s the point, the promise of this technology is speed and efficiency, a shorter route to an end product, and the removal of barriers between you and your creative self.
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... 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... See more
John Warner • Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values
In the face of ever-improving generative AI tools, you have to translate your own life context — experiences, rawness quirks, humor (eg. my affinity for awful dad puns) — into the creative work. Because if you are only expressing what can be “seen”, technology has it covered. But what can be “felt”? That is still uniquely ours.