evolve human creativity
Inspired by Kami's AI and self-expression.
Pinning self-expression solely on a lack of LLM involvement (whether assistive or generative) ironically dehumanizes the creative process. Thinking the machinery "does the work for you" forgets the driver, manufacturer, and countless other roles humans play in creation. LLM users are still humans that impart themselves into their instruments to create art. Even said instruments can be considered artful on their own, like other products we use on a daily basis.
Like other products, LLMs have non-zero failure rates resulting from design flaws, improper application, or even subpar usage. Tools being better than you at any given skill can encourage you to bridge the gap or exceed their capability, with or without assistance from them. You don't have to settle for resentment when technology as a whole helps make life more exciting, abstract, and also functional.
Regardless of the process behind someone's work, there will be much you will never know about their work and themselves. What someone wants to convey and what someone else understands of that is often, if not always, incongruent with each other. Authors can forget, revise, or change their intentions over time, if they don't start from incomplete grounds themselves. Doesn't this divide makes art fascinating?
I find exploring creativity through different tools neat, not to maximize a nebulous "humanity" within my already human output, but to inhabit different frames altogether. You were born just in time to try out all the cool technological developments your ancestors and predecessors couldn't experience. Surprise yourself with how far we have advanced, even within your own lifetime if you so choose. Is it possible that you hold the keys to our future?
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