Meet generation ‘generative’
In all the breathless AI coverage, the stakes seem to be perpetually cranked – will your job disappear? Will you be enslaved by chatbots? Are living, breathing human friends like totally a thing of the past? (🥹)
In the excitement of the post-ChatGPT period many have somewhat overlooked tech companies’ unending fondness for overselling and under-delivering. At the same time, these tools’ increasing ability to automate the once unconscious creative act, is itself interesting (if also depressing).
It’s an interesting and seemingly inescapable topic, so I wrote an article for new European magazine group, EM Guide, back in September 2024. Tech is hardly my usual ‘beat’, but I thought it was worth teasing out what generative AI tools seem to mean for the worlds of writing, music and image making. It’s a topic that somehow collides philosophy, economics, chicanery and human vulnerability in fascinating ways.
You can read the piece here:
