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"There's a poem by John Hegley in which he condemns contact lenses because they hide your flaws, which are what make you fully human. The final line reads, "They are a betrayal of humanity." The humour comes from the hyperbole, but also from the reasonable way he gets there.
To fully engage in a creative process, the possibility of failure must be there. Creativity comes from the thousands of tiny decisions (some conscious, some very much not) that pull it back from failure.
To me, using "A.I." for creativity is wrong. Not just because of its catastrophic environmental cost, but because it's creativity for cowards. It will still produce flaws, but those flaws will reveal nothing about a person. They can be blamed on something else.
It is the struggle to overcome our flaws (or to make peace with them) that makes a creative work compelling and unique. Work without that tends to be shallow and unsatisfying; creativity on easy mode.
It is, by Hegley's definition, a betrayal of humanity."
