Why art matters
“Do you think human creativity matters? Well, most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about poetry, right? They have a life to live and they’re really not that concerned with Allen Ginsberg’s poems or anyone’s poems—until, their father dies; they go to a funeral; you lose a child; someone breaks your heart.
And all of a sudden you’re desperat
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Creativity is made, not generated — Procreate®
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Disney's (1934) The Grasshopper and the Ants
dailymotion.comThis cartoon depicts ants hard at work storing supplies for the winter, while a grasshopper only sings, which gets him into trouble in the winter
But come the cold, his singing lifts their spirits. Many variants of this tale
Art is never valued, until it is invaluable
In design, AI inspires me no more than elevator music or a business presentation. However, it often shows me what I do not want. When I ask Chat-GPT how I could better phrase something, I almost always get the most uninteresting, boring, often meaningless answer. As an author that writes to say something meaningful, get upset about this, and in res... See more
Oliver Reichenstein • AI and the Beauty of Human Flaws
In design, AI inspires me no more than elevator music or a business presentation. However, it often shows me what I do not want. When I ask Chat-GPT how I could better phrase something, I almost always get the most uninteresting, boring, often meaningless answer. As an author that writes to say something meaningful, get upset about this, and in resisting the emptiness of the generated response, I uncover what I previously could not articulate. I do not want to demonize AI, but it works well as a devil’s advocate.
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