"This piece well predates the current AI boom, but "all destination and no journey" is a pretty good explanation for why using AI to create art is mainly compelling to people who think about creativity in terms of producing content and generating intellectual property. They just want the thing they can market and sell for money or clout; they don't care how they got there."
"I am reading David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything, slowly, in pieces, meeting over months with a book club that has become a load-bearing pillar of my intellectual community. I recommend it, the book and the book club both. Graeber and Wengrow introduced me to the idea of schismogenesis-the process of forming social divisions-which happens not by chance but through deliberate choices people make within an in-group to differentiate themselves from some out-group. The way Canadians define themselves in opposition to Americans, say. Or the way AI haters (complimentary) refuse to engage with generative AI."
Convenience culture reduces creativity to marketable outputs, making AI-generated art especially attractive to people focused on content production and intellectual property. Many users prioritize outcomes they can sell or use for clout, ignoring the creative process and the value of difficulty. Technology adoption and rejection become social identity choices through schismogenesis, with groups deliberately differentiating themselves by which tools they embrace. Communal practices like slow reading and book clubs provide sustained intellectual support and contrast with convenience. Historical refusals of agriculture or domestication illustrate longstanding identity-based technology choices, and rejecting generative AI can express such values.
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