“You do not need to demonstrate hours of toil, make a lot of decisions, or even express thoughts and feelings to make art. Assuming that you do impoverishes human creativity.”
–
The Atlantic staff writer
Matteo Wong, rebuking science fiction author
Ted Chiang’s recent assertion that AI will never make art because it’s decoupled from (agonizing) creative labour. To Wong, “there isn’t a binary between asking a AI model for a complete output and sweating long hours before a blank page or canvas.”
