The Inner Canvas Collective
@theinnercanvas
Musings about Play therapy, Psychotherapy, Clinical Supervision, & Creative Growth. Keeping it Passionate & Expressive. ((Dr. Elyssa))
The Inner Canvas Collective
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"Go deeper and weirder and make something that is so human and so strange that it can't be duplicated by an algorithm."
Richard Whittaker • Just a moment...
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.
Becoming unLLMable
In May, I delivered a version of this essay at the Sana AI Summit stage in Stockholm. The talk was titled “Becoming unLLMable.” My goal was to inspire and lead with hope. And it seemed to do just that—people were moved. For a moment, my own anxieties about AI quieted.
But afterward, in conversation after conversation, one question... See more
In May, I delivered a version of this essay at the Sana AI Summit stage in Stockholm. The talk was titled “Becoming unLLMable.” My goal was to inspire and lead with hope. And it seemed to do just that—people were moved. For a moment, my own anxieties about AI quieted.
But afterward, in conversation after conversation, one question... See more
Sari Azout • How I Stopped Worrying About AI and Learned to Value My Humanity
The creative process utilizes whatever materials we have at our disposal to keep our hands busy so that challenging ideas and emotions have a chance to burn, churn, and turn into something else — clarity, new conceptions, or compassionate action.
Adina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom
beginner’s mind is to revisit something that feels well-known or familiar and set aside our expectations and preconceived ideas in order to rediscover it anew, like a beginner.
Adina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom
In a sense, that beginner’s mind is what we must come back to every time we sit down and write. There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before. Each time is a new journey with no maps.