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Tools are tools. ChatGPT is a tool just like a camera is a tool. I'm sure a lot of landscape painters in the late 1800's felt the same as Nick Cave does today. "Cameras take the effort out of rendering images of reality thus robbing humanity of the struggle that in the end equates to love." Tools like ChatGPT further open up the creative process to larger numbers of people. It removes the traditional gatekeepers which is why they are pushing back so hard.

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> Tools like ChatGPT further open up the creative process to larger numbers of people. It removes the traditional gatekeepers which is why they are pushing back so hard.

In what way was the "creative process" closed off to those people before?

I'm not the person you're replying to, but one can think of a myriad of ways.

Our society is currently structured in a way where the time and money needed to "freely" pursue a creative endeavor is not afforded to most.

I consider myself to be in a particularly "good spot" in my life. But as a new father, I oftentimes cannot afford the spare time between my societal obligations, and fatherhood. This means my creative endeavors take the back seat.

Not op, but my answer to this would be years of practice and skills. Someone might have an amazing idea, but might have trouble putting their vision on paper. ChatGPT and generative art helps "idea people" concretize their vision more easily. The promise of generative AI is exactly this in my opinion; giving the ability to anyone to simply wish an idea into a concrete "thing"

Ideas are, will be, and always has been, worthless on their own.

As the GP was suggesting, ideas+generative ai is not worthless. That's what makes it significant.

Ideas can change the world. Memes (not the internet-images) are extremely powerful.

But if you meant, an idea alone can't be packaged and sold. That's true...

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