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But the point made about programming can just as well be made about filmmaking or writing. What's the point if AI does it cheaper and quicker? I don't see any end state in which humanity doesn't dumb down to just consuming endless amounts of slop, completely robbed of its creative outlets.

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First of all, quicker and cheaper doesn’t matter if it’s not better too.

Secondly, AI is still pretty garbage at the humanities, but even if that changes, and AI becomes good at art, I still don’t think AI will replace humans in the arts.

Lastly and most importantly, this is all irrelevant, because it doesn’t get to my main point: your sources of intellectual community are not going anywhere.

Regardless of what AI can do, you and I are not obligated to simply cease all creative outlets. Nobody is robbing you of your creative outlets, nor forcing you to only consume.

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