EDIT: What's with the downvotes? Other "pro-genAI" comments are getting downvoted too. How is it that a community of builders and hackers are so against this?
This is like saying keyboards suddenly made tens of millions of people novelists and shows deep confusion about what constitutes creative expression.
And something as little as modifying a meme is a form of creative expression.
Is there a technological tool[1] which would've solved that problem?
[1] Technological as opposed to, say, a mindfulness technique, which some would describe as a tool.
I dont share any of my content with people. I dont think its any good. But I can sit down with 3 AI's and bash out a story that I enjoy, that I largely controlled the creation of. Heck you can do it in multiple ways. I can have NovelAI fix the rough edges of my writing. I can have ChatGPT use a format like Lester Dents and simply ask me for the creative bits in between. I can ask it to help me follow a formal novel outline process.
Years ago I wanted to commission some art from a Deviant Art account. I waited 3 weeks for the response that they didnt have the time and suggested other people.
I am not saying AI should replace that bloke, and it hasnt he now has a steady high paying gig, but the time for me to go from brainfart to execution has drastically decreased. The creative input I have in the process hasn't changed. Its all critique and develop right. Heck most tools let me highlight the problem and rework just that part of the image.
Ultimately I enjoy it as creativity. Even if people look down their nose at it, its working the same muscles just faster.
Unfortunately, this isn’t true. It’s just bathing in the median of others people work, at best akin to playing video games (vs making them). There’s no shame in it, I love playing games too, but if you ever want to rise to the level of independent creative expression, you’ll have to give up these crutches, confront your own limitations, and risk failure to overcome them. No challenge, no change.
Artists copy famous paintings for the same reason.
Its stupid to presume that no artist ever "bathed" in the the median of other peoples work before 2021.
It would only be shortsighted if it was some kind of enforceable-in-the-future commitment.
As it is, it is an excellent short-term way to grab mindshare with a sizable chunk of the target market by what amounts to political signalling that costs nothing, either in current resources or in foreclosing future options.
But it's all to gue in cheek, cuz I use Claude for writing python all the time.