The Hubris Of GenAI
It’s overwhelming, insufferable, and to this point, completely unjustified.
If you dip your toes into the generative AI debate, you’ll come across this common thread from the “pro camp” — artists, photographers, videographers, musicians, coders and writers should happily welcome generative AI into their work processes or use it to replace them entirely, and you’re an idiot if you think otherwise.
As the saying goes, “AI won’t replace humans bro, but humans using AI will replace other humans who don’t.”
Well, for a technology that does some stuff to an average enough level — and does other stuff inaccurately or absurdly wrong — I’ve seen little to justify this steadfast belief that the majority of creatives will a) find it helpful and b) actually want to use it. It has offered almost nothing of real significance so far except to help throw more sludge into the already overwhelmed content well. It’s resulted in more content, but all of it is of less quality than what we had before. Great. The belief that it should be widely embraced also side-steps the great rift that has been caused by the fact most of these LLMs are trained on stolen content, for which the original creator will never see a dime. Despite that, we’re all meant to eat it up anyway.
