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Because we don't enjoy actually doing it. No one who likes writing is asking chat gpt to write for them. It's people who don't want to write but are required to for whatever reason. Humans will always try to come up with a way to not have to do the work they don't want to but still get it done, even if it's not as good. Using tools like this is very human.
I really don’t see any value in AI art. AI pictures look like slop, AI music sounds soulless, AI writing I guess can be fine but usually sounds weird.
I just don’t see the value in AI because to me, every use case scenario for anything artistic is justified with a capitalist excuse.
I’ll give you the organizational ones, that’s understandable and not a bad reason. I suppose I have trouble getting behind taking the soul out of creating something just to slap it on an ad or product to sell something.
IMO the only problem with it is calling it "Art". Stock photos are also slop, except man-made. That, or the soulless corporate-style illustrations in PowerPoints are the sort of thing it replaces well.
Not the "I poured my feelings onto a canvas/film" actual art. AI images are in my opinion a tool just as valid as the next - just a tool, not art.
Commodification of art is soul less. Doesn't matter if a person makes the commodity or a machine. It's meant to be aesthetically pleasing or elicit an emotion to sell something. It's not really art anymore than what I'm writing here is art.
Art is about playful self-expression and often sharing that expression with those who appreciate it.
And AI creative writing is garbage too. I had Gemini write some poetry for me yesterday out of curiosity, and, as someone that writes poetry, I'll just say it was formulaic and predictable. It has no understanding of the medium, it's history, why things are done in certain ways, or ability to play with the many forms poetry may take. It's a good enough replica for people who want to write a shitty rhyming poem. Like we all learned to do as children. And it has a huge vocabulary to make rhymes with. But it was still uninspired drivel.
For creative writing, it's a tool. Not a writer. And for technical writing, well, it's often wrong about things so... still a tool.