Is Imagination Doomed in an AI-Dominated Future? Discover the Surprising Truth!

Is Imagination Doomed in an AI-Dominated Future? Discover the Surprising Truth!

THE RECKLESS WRITER

Our creative renderings are now influenced by pixels instead of dreams

Image by Walter Rhein (painting by his daughter)

Yesterday, I was outside playing cards with my daughters. We were listening to the radio, and a song came on that was so generic we couldn’t believe it was real.

My eldest daughter, who has just finished her freshman year of high school, said, “Oh great, now we have to listen to AI music too?”

That comment got me thinking about what modern times must be like for her. I’m well aware that my kids are more plugged in to our digital reality than I am. Is it possible they’ve already developed some internal AI detector?

I was concerned as much as I was relieved. AI has become so ubiquitous that we can assume it has already begun to pollute our subconscious minds. I shudder to think that the unfathomable depths that give birth to our dreams might have already been tainted.

An increasingly inorganic world

Gone are the days when a developing artist could sit in a local cafe and play for tips. When you think about it, what better occupation could there be for a budding poet?

It provides a little bit of cash plus the opportunity to workshop ideas. That’s everything any artist wants. Now, virtually everything we interact with is prerecorded. The distance between the observer and the creator is growing all the time.

We don’t know the artists anymore.

Our film and art only speak to an increasingly narrow cross-section of the population. We’ve lost our awareness that there are whole communities that live outside your perceived reality. Our curiosity has been replaced with conformity. All of our literature is tailored to the same people who pay attention to the televised advertisements for luxury cars.

I barely even hear those advertisements because I know I’m not the intended demographic. I get my cars used from various online marketplaces. There are enormous swaths of media messaging that simply do not apply to me.

There are an infinite number of human experiences, but we only focus on a few to…

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