Maybe everyone has it backwards. They shouldn't be mad at everyone pumping out AI shit. They should be mad at all the crappy stuff we were forced to endure that was no better than AI shit. The only difference is the crap doesn't cost anything anymore.
"Genuine creativity" for mundane web sites is a reason to close the page and buy from someone else. I'm tired of the overcomplication. The page jerking around as more crap is loaded. One minute page loads on mobile (looking at you, CNN).
All that has negative value if you just want to buy the thing. I just got done with an "instant quote" site that took 12 hours to respond for a request for a mattress install.
Now LLMs make a certain amount of genericity so easy it will become more repulsive than things which are full on bad taste to different sorts of people.
My gut feeling is the web world will experience something like the Japanese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heta-uma fad where things which are bad are good because at least they are authentic.
I like this angle. You also need enough technical ability to know what is now possible. People are very used to being limited by technology and by the limited resources of human implementation. Getting un-used to that is a new form of creativity which should be fostered. This should in turn lead to more ideas being tried, more iteration on those ideas.
It's going to make for a lot of stuff, and a lot lot lot of it will be slop. It might be too exhausting to wade through. So there will be generative creativity to produce that mountain of new stuff, but then there's editorial capacity (taste?) that will be able to choose the meaningful results which should get further resources and development.
It always was far easier to train a creative thinker in how to operate the tools needed to facilitate their vision than it is to get a great tools operator to have good ideas.
AI can be creative. My AI told me to imagine a lighthouse milking a cloud. That's pretty wacky.
Maybe everyone has it backwards. They shouldn't be mad at everyone pumping out AI shit. They should be mad at all the crappy stuff we were forced to endure that was no better than AI shit. The only difference is the crap doesn't cost anything anymore.
The emperor has no clothes.
> The Present Works and is Boring
"Genuine creativity" for mundane web sites is a reason to close the page and buy from someone else. I'm tired of the overcomplication. The page jerking around as more crap is loaded. One minute page loads on mobile (looking at you, CNN).
All that has negative value if you just want to buy the thing. I just got done with an "instant quote" site that took 12 hours to respond for a request for a mattress install.
> One minute page loads on mobile (looking at you, CNN)
lite.cnn.com is their text only subdomain. Probably meant for accessibility, but since it's only text it loads quickly and is very pleasant to use.
Meta: isn't it still 2026 pretty much globally? When did we switch from only labelling older articles with their year?
This is a remake of the 2019 film: Genuine Creativity Is Your New Moat.
But yeah, it would be ironic if this was posted by AI and it misunderstood the convention.
If the op/poster is here, you will appreciate this: Waters of Life by Mystical Sun (Deeperworlds, 2006). See if that rings any bells.
The whole album is great, as are the others in the catalog. Just wish I had CDs of them instead of the MP3s I purchased.
I almost think this doesn't go far enough.
Now LLMs make a certain amount of genericity so easy it will become more repulsive than things which are full on bad taste to different sorts of people.
My gut feeling is the web world will experience something like the Japanese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heta-uma fad where things which are bad are good because at least they are authentic.
funny enough this looks written by AI. could have used a little more creativity.
I like this angle. You also need enough technical ability to know what is now possible. People are very used to being limited by technology and by the limited resources of human implementation. Getting un-used to that is a new form of creativity which should be fostered. This should in turn lead to more ideas being tried, more iteration on those ideas.
It's going to make for a lot of stuff, and a lot lot lot of it will be slop. It might be too exhausting to wade through. So there will be generative creativity to produce that mountain of new stuff, but then there's editorial capacity (taste?) that will be able to choose the meaningful results which should get further resources and development.
Both of these will be needed!
ai is the natural evolution of language. it's the next level of that device.
creativity is you wandering the aisles of walmart, pushing your cart past shelves of all kinds of devices.
...wasn't it the old moat as well?
Underrated but true.
It always was far easier to train a creative thinker in how to operate the tools needed to facilitate their vision than it is to get a great tools operator to have good ideas.
First time a typeface violates my sensibilities enough to close the the article before reading
https://web.archive.org/web/20140423121426/http://www.libres...
I refer you to the footer.
(All time classic).
I was never sensitive to it, but you are right, it is somehow off-putting.