[stevewallis]

If you take a taxi 26 miles you'll get to the finish line first, but you didn't run a marathon.

There is such a single minded focus on the consumption of art in lieu of creation of art in these discussions around AI and I find it incredibly disheartening.

The point of writing is not "I need a page full of words" for the same reason that the point of running a marathon is not "I need to get 26 miles from here fast".

The reason to make art is because it is inherently valuable to us as humans. The act itself makes being alive better for all those who participate.

Building a tool that outputs crummy simulacrums doesn't make everyone a poet, sorry. If you didn't make art, you didn't make art. The act of creation is quite literally the entire point.

Why are we currently obsessed with finding ways to eliminate it?