World Within World

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.

Idk how to make this clear to people who don't understand this but AI isn't "democratizing" art or intellectual resources or anything, it's literally the opposite. Creating a vacuum where our collective society's cognitive resources are being absorbed by a very few select tech owners. So if by "democratized art" you mean "put art in the hands of a few rich and powerful people who deign to let the rest of us borrow the artificial brain on their magnanimous dime" then yeah sure it democratized art