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Dakota Gale's avatar

SO on point, Mike. Thanks for the thoughts. Knowing all the AI stuff is just pulling from (*cough stealing cough*) artists and creators makes it even worse in my mind. It all just reads and feels like banal BS. Knowing someone had to sweat and work and hone a craft also makes me appreciate it more.

For me as a creator, I actually ENJOY the creative process. Cracking myself up while writing, the satisfaction of a drawing, a piano piece I'm playing... I hope attorneys can use ChatGPT so they can spend their time on something else, but for you and I, here's to staying weird, being bombastic, and pulling our work from a place of experience and humanness.

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Mike Sowden's avatar

Right! That's the other side of it. Why skip the part that's (a) teaching you the actual skills to do it without any external help (otherwise, aren't you creating a dependency on these tools? Maybe an expensive one, considering some of these services now come with a cost and that's bound to escalate?) - and (b) the part that's SO MUCH DAMN FUN? (Are you guys anti-fun?)

I'm sure in practice there will be people using it in amazing ways. I'm already learning about some via a professor at the Wharton School: https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/my-class-required-ai-heres-what-ive

But regarding all the ways it's going to help creatively unambitious people do *less* work - well, I wish them good luck with that, I guess? Sounds - awful?

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Dakota Gale's avatar

Whoa, that professor is ON it. So cool, thanks for sharing.

It's going to be fascinating to see how all this AI stuff (or everything, I suppose) plays out. I'm enjoying this guy's take on AI, check it out. https://garymarcus.substack.com/

Also, loved your recent thoughts on sonder as it relates to past humans. Such a cool mind-bending concept. Keep up the brilliant writing!

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