Brilliant read! Indeed it does appear that AI is crusading a charge for the converting away of work and action into labour.
Yet still, I’d argue almost to the contrary; insofar as AI remain predicting and not living, true work, and its creative precondition, will always exist. Just because there exist paintings in airports and motels doesn’t mean the craft of painting is lost forever, in much the same way that AI-generated text lacks the lived substance of an author’s pages despite its apparent ‘cognitive superiority’. Work, and action, can always exist. I’d push back and say that, if anything, the increasing sameness that will inevitably result from AI invading most of the words we read, songs we hear, or chairs we sit on will drive a demand in the exact opposite direction, for something novel and imperfect and refreshingly human.
Such a great point!! I completely agree, it reminds me of how people now value the small "human" mistakes that people make when writing :) I think what we once worked so hard to get rid of is now a signal to others that this text or piece of art is definitely human, and that's beautiful.
Brilliant read! Indeed it does appear that AI is crusading a charge for the converting away of work and action into labour.
Yet still, I’d argue almost to the contrary; insofar as AI remain predicting and not living, true work, and its creative precondition, will always exist. Just because there exist paintings in airports and motels doesn’t mean the craft of painting is lost forever, in much the same way that AI-generated text lacks the lived substance of an author’s pages despite its apparent ‘cognitive superiority’. Work, and action, can always exist. I’d push back and say that, if anything, the increasing sameness that will inevitably result from AI invading most of the words we read, songs we hear, or chairs we sit on will drive a demand in the exact opposite direction, for something novel and imperfect and refreshingly human.
Such a great point!! I completely agree, it reminds me of how people now value the small "human" mistakes that people make when writing :) I think what we once worked so hard to get rid of is now a signal to others that this text or piece of art is definitely human, and that's beautiful.
excellent observation and conclusion