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No, AI isn’t the end of the creative economy (opens the original)
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AI has a problem: creatives hate it, and are opting out.Their objections are serious: that LLMs were built on work taken without consent or compensation. That they now compete directly with those same creators. That they devalue creative labor with shortcuts and slop. All of the above are valid, but they rely on a faulty premise of how creation actually works. Consider:Who made the chairs in your home?What inspired your favorite movie? Who designed the font on your computer?<a class="ima
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