AI has sucked up everything else... Now they need original ideas
June 16, 2025
Some of us knew this day would come. It's hard to explain to the technologists, but artists don't just reconfigure what's come before. They take an imaginative leap into things which have NEVER been seen before. It's not that AI can't do that... It's that AI probably can't inspire more and better art in the process. Art feeds or art, driven by ILLOGICAL connections.
Fast Company: I write novels and build AI. The real story is more complicated than either side admits, 2025-Jun-13, by Lauren Oliver:
LLMs like ChatGPT have already consumed virtually all the data available online. To meaningfully improve, they now need a continuous influx of new content, including original art. Without it, they’re headed for a recursive loop: generating content that feeds on other AI-generated content, leading to increasingly low-quality or bizarre results.
To put it bluntly, generative AI companies need artists and the work they haven’t made yet.