Absolutely crazy to me that the pro AI people nearly always think creative stuff is a chore that a machine needs to do instead of something that is actually fun.
This reminds me of an article by a college English professor who spent a semester having his English composition students experiment with AI along with their own writing.
For one assignment, he had them generate their own list of ideas for a paper, then have AI generate a list of ideas, and decide which list was better. A lot of the students felt like AI generated a better, more creative list than they had.
Then the professor put everyone's lists up - and it turns out that AI had generated nearly the same handful of "creative" ideas for everyone in the class.
An LLM isn't, and by its nature, cannot ever be truly creative the way a human can be. If TV writers all asked AI to give them their ideas, all the shows would quickly look exactly the same - it would be regression toward the mean on an industry-wide scale (worse than we already have thanks to producers and networks not wanting to take chances). And then as those got fed into the LLMs, it would just get worse and worse, not better.
I feel like people who don't create look at all the whining we creatives do and think we need a solution for that. They don't realize that the agonizing is part of the joy of creation. And then they ruin the whole thing by creating and/or using LLMs.
