[I_Am_Nous]

This isn't even about ancient cultures, it's about valuing the product that comes from a persons work. Valuing their time and labor, valuing the craft itself.

Compared to a "tribal wood carving designed by GPT" a real world piece of wood is, well, real. The novelty of everything wears off eventually so it won't matter if GPT could still show you nearly infinite carving designs. Without that being turned into actual physical objects by people, they are disposable bytes of data with no real meaning.