This is an interesting take- not gonna lie. I don’t consider myself a troll about AI, I was very pro in the beginning, but it’s being implemented like a bag of potatoes in so many places, including heavily the field I work in. I don’t know what to make of it, and so have abstained out of disgust.
The music part got me. There’s much I’d love to share that I’ve made, written, that I don’t have the technical knowledge for, I can relate to that. That’s a pretty badass use, and, yeah, that’s why we make tools. It’s human to make things easier, more efficient.
Thanks I am getting ready to push the button on my AI assisted album that says more about the reality of human love than the Beatles ever did. Lyrics all mine and think God the AI assistance to make it Pink Floyd beautiful. Finally the democracy to allow all creatives not just the lucky or rich ones to have a voice!
This is excellently written- the tools exist, what you choose to do with them is up to you- love that. The ability to get things, thoughts, ideas out of our head that was not possible before, like your recordings, and in an efficient way in order to save your own precious time to create at your highest value contributions - that really resonates with me. I feel like the technology has finally caught up with me so I can now generate all the visual ideas in my head that I need to create for my presentations, but I can now cut out the 50% grunt work that used to result in building very average slides. It has literally been life changing, and now 90% of my time is back in creator mode! And my favorite line, because my focus is “human potential” and how to create our own success: is that it’s not the successful people trolling your posts to “catch you” or pat the idiots on the head that got fooled by your AI. 😂😂 Well done, well written- thanks for saying it!
Just saw this today. This is my first week on Substack and it seems like we're feeling the same vibe. My writing does not compare to yours but as I've said multiple times, I'm not a writer, I'm a thinker.
While I see your point and you raise a very good one at that, creativity cannot be stifled by the integration of AI, I do beg a question. Does it not stifle skill? Knowing how art works at a foundational level, across different mediums and cultures, expands the variety to which art can be expressed from a point of view. Without the time, patience and effort it takes to learn about the world you are pulling from, your AI projects will be stale. AI in the the right hands can expand on creativity but when given to people who won’t even take the time to understand how to create tension in a story, plot manipulation, foreshadowing, character depth and world building, you find yourself reading a very boring book, a book without personality. That’s what makes art interesting, it’s not the tools, the skills or even the knowledge — it’s the person behind the creation and the source they pull from. Someone might have source, a good story, a good song, a good picture but without character backed by learning the world in which the creative expression inhabits, the expression could come across as mediocre.
AND THATS OKAY.
Making art is supposed to be messy, expression is a personal ting fam. I enjoyed this article. I can tell you know a thing or two about writing, even if you used AI, but the problem arises when the people with access to AI have never tried to express themselves and observe their limits. AI removes the creative struggle. With it, you don’t need to have ever read a book, or made a song, or drawn something, but you get to tell it ‘do this’ and it does. I find that ridiculous, part of what makes art impressive is its difficulty, the same way worth is judged by rarity, art is judge by expertise. Remove that and the bar of great work skyrockets and ‘everyone is an artist’. That’s okay too. I just hope humans will find a way to raise the bar of human expression before AI catches up because what then will we have use for.
You should heard people bitch when the printing press was created. They thought it would end the world lol 😆 shaaaaaame on you for using tools!!!! Love this.
Ehh… one article was accused as being obviously-AI? I wouldn’t get too bothered by that.
If you know you didn’t, it’s still good info to have. Most claims of AI usually mean some version of this: this was boring, lifeless, and forgettable, but technically, very clean/competent writing.
Some people are boring, lifeless people, sure. Maybe you are, or maybe you phoned it in—let AI do a little more than usual?
I faced an accusation like that regarding a poem where I used AI to create a background. The claim was that the verses shouldn't involve AI—that I should cut back on using it. I told him to get lost. I replied that the poem was 100% human—100% mine. I told him that if he wanted to see my 100% human work, he’d have to pay.
And I never heard from him again.
Rest assured, the people criticizing are doing so because they can't create works or even use AI. That’s called incompetence!
This is an important piece. Please distribute it as widely as you can. I'm sharing it and restacking it — if I can figure out how, lol. I'm awful with platforms, apps, etc.
I wrote this piece recently. Please read it. I've gone to subscribe to you and to read more of your work. I'd appreciate your support in kind.
This is an interesting take- not gonna lie. I don’t consider myself a troll about AI, I was very pro in the beginning, but it’s being implemented like a bag of potatoes in so many places, including heavily the field I work in. I don’t know what to make of it, and so have abstained out of disgust.
The music part got me. There’s much I’d love to share that I’ve made, written, that I don’t have the technical knowledge for, I can relate to that. That’s a pretty badass use, and, yeah, that’s why we make tools. It’s human to make things easier, more efficient.
You bring an angry hope. I dig it.
Thanks I am getting ready to push the button on my AI assisted album that says more about the reality of human love than the Beatles ever did. Lyrics all mine and think God the AI assistance to make it Pink Floyd beautiful. Finally the democracy to allow all creatives not just the lucky or rich ones to have a voice!
Bravo! Cheers
"The lady doth protest too much."
You can ask your handy LLM what it means.
This is excellently written- the tools exist, what you choose to do with them is up to you- love that. The ability to get things, thoughts, ideas out of our head that was not possible before, like your recordings, and in an efficient way in order to save your own precious time to create at your highest value contributions - that really resonates with me. I feel like the technology has finally caught up with me so I can now generate all the visual ideas in my head that I need to create for my presentations, but I can now cut out the 50% grunt work that used to result in building very average slides. It has literally been life changing, and now 90% of my time is back in creator mode! And my favorite line, because my focus is “human potential” and how to create our own success: is that it’s not the successful people trolling your posts to “catch you” or pat the idiots on the head that got fooled by your AI. 😂😂 Well done, well written- thanks for saying it!
Just saw this today. This is my first week on Substack and it seems like we're feeling the same vibe. My writing does not compare to yours but as I've said multiple times, I'm not a writer, I'm a thinker.
https://criticallyinsane.substack.com/p/chapter-1-continued-the-un-ai-ded?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=xqugh
Write softly and carry a big stick.
This aged like already curdled milk 🙂
While I see your point and you raise a very good one at that, creativity cannot be stifled by the integration of AI, I do beg a question. Does it not stifle skill? Knowing how art works at a foundational level, across different mediums and cultures, expands the variety to which art can be expressed from a point of view. Without the time, patience and effort it takes to learn about the world you are pulling from, your AI projects will be stale. AI in the the right hands can expand on creativity but when given to people who won’t even take the time to understand how to create tension in a story, plot manipulation, foreshadowing, character depth and world building, you find yourself reading a very boring book, a book without personality. That’s what makes art interesting, it’s not the tools, the skills or even the knowledge — it’s the person behind the creation and the source they pull from. Someone might have source, a good story, a good song, a good picture but without character backed by learning the world in which the creative expression inhabits, the expression could come across as mediocre.
AND THATS OKAY.
Making art is supposed to be messy, expression is a personal ting fam. I enjoyed this article. I can tell you know a thing or two about writing, even if you used AI, but the problem arises when the people with access to AI have never tried to express themselves and observe their limits. AI removes the creative struggle. With it, you don’t need to have ever read a book, or made a song, or drawn something, but you get to tell it ‘do this’ and it does. I find that ridiculous, part of what makes art impressive is its difficulty, the same way worth is judged by rarity, art is judge by expertise. Remove that and the bar of great work skyrockets and ‘everyone is an artist’. That’s okay too. I just hope humans will find a way to raise the bar of human expression before AI catches up because what then will we have use for.
Everyone sees writing differently. I would never try to define how someone should write, ever. It is a personal experience…
Girl log off
https://goodfellasoprano.substack.com/p/fuhr?r=8vji32&utm_medium=ios
You should heard people bitch when the printing press was created. They thought it would end the world lol 😆 shaaaaaame on you for using tools!!!! Love this.
Ehh… one article was accused as being obviously-AI? I wouldn’t get too bothered by that.
If you know you didn’t, it’s still good info to have. Most claims of AI usually mean some version of this: this was boring, lifeless, and forgettable, but technically, very clean/competent writing.
Some people are boring, lifeless people, sure. Maybe you are, or maybe you phoned it in—let AI do a little more than usual?
I faced an accusation like that regarding a poem where I used AI to create a background. The claim was that the verses shouldn't involve AI—that I should cut back on using it. I told him to get lost. I replied that the poem was 100% human—100% mine. I told him that if he wanted to see my 100% human work, he’d have to pay.
And I never heard from him again.
Rest assured, the people criticizing are doing so because they can't create works or even use AI. That’s called incompetence!
This is an important piece. Please distribute it as widely as you can. I'm sharing it and restacking it — if I can figure out how, lol. I'm awful with platforms, apps, etc.
I wrote this piece recently. Please read it. I've gone to subscribe to you and to read more of your work. I'd appreciate your support in kind.
https://dnewhouse.substack.com/p/when-does-an-editor-become-a-ghostwriter?r=3i12gb