Slayright:
Yeah adding to what fatgpt just said, ai can come up with unexpected combinations to create a unique piece of art which may not have been visualised by the artist and this is similar in a way to humans combining influnences to create a new art style.
Munchies:
Mayhaps. But having looked at AI art and literature, it's safe to say it's stifling creativity, not enhancing it.
Speaking for writers only, there are scores of free, non-AI programs and communities dedicated to this very thing. And they are not hard to find either. A quick web search will pull out numerous options, so you are spoiled for choice.
So when you say "AI can do _," it reads as someone who does not write and is not passionate about writing.
AI is a pale imitation of what already exists.
FatGTP:
Premises: (a creativity requires years of practice and craft work; (b AI is only a pale imitation.
Contradiction check: (a implies that creativity rests on learnable skills/decisions. (b asserts that no tool can adequately reproduce those skills. Both together are consistent only if one additionally claims that those skills are in principle unlearnable/unteachable — an unjustified extra assumption.
Conclusion: It is logically permissible to pose the dichotomy: either creativity is mystical/unteachable (in which case evidence must be provided), or it consists of analyzable techniques (in which case tools like AI can at least assist those techniques).
Do you use AI to write your responses? The all come off as hella soulless.
Also, your premise is flawed. Generative AI stifles creativity. Think of it like a muscle. We all have different starting points, but if we want to improve our use of them, we have to train. AI is like having an exosuit.
Sure, an exosuit will enhance your strength without you needing to spend hours training. But there's a limit to what you can achieve with them. And if you compare what someone can do with an exosuit to what someone can do with training, it's a night-and-day difference. There's a flexibility and agility you can only get with training. Plus, exosuits end up stifling you by putting more strain on your body.
AI is essentially a machine that runs on mathematical probability. Creativity does not work like that. You cannot program generative AI to replicate the same spontaneity and logical leaps a brain (human or otherwise) can do. Maybe one day we will have the technology, but it won't be with generative AI. It will have to be something else entirely.
