35. Your ai-thingo isn't Art, it's just a shadow

When you make things by hand, when you toil and you discover, you’re building artifacts of experience. When you press enter on a prompt, you’re simply echoing someone else’s experience (and effort).

It’s not inherently wrong to make things with little effort, but please stop getting hurt when the world tells you your ‘ai-thingo’ is not art; all you’ve made is a shadow of a thing.

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Email: josh@jcaldigital.org