If you take a taxi 26 miles you'll get to the finish line first, but you didn't run a marathon.<p>There is such a single minded focus on the consumption of art in lieu of creation of art in these discussions around AI and I find it incredibly disheartening.<p>The point of writing is not "I need a page full of words" for the same reason that the point of running a marathon is not "I need to get 26 miles from here fast".<p>The reason to make art is because it is inherently valuable to us as humans. The act itself makes being alive better for all those who participate.<p>Building a tool that outputs crummy simulacrums doesn't make everyone a poet, sorry. If you didn't make art, you didn't make art. The act of creation is quite literally the entire point.<p>Why are we currently obsessed with finding ways to eliminate it?
Amazingly, South Park had an episode basically about this over 12 years ago: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnybot" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnybot</a>
What happens if everybody can be a poet, everybody can paint masterpieces of art, everybody can be a comedian, everybody can make music?<p>What happens when anyone can speak the prose of Shakespeare, or of Charles Dickens, or Dostoevsky?<p>What happens if entire art styles are interchangeable? Will it feel different seeing one style from another?