The following is a facebook post from our member Chris, that I've decided to repost here as a stimulus to discussion----
AI tools to paint your art, write your books, finish your poems, process your photographs, edit your films, develop your ideas, do your thinking for you, do your learning for you.
This is how civilisation ends: absorbed in the spectacle of its own atrophying competence in a world defined against all preceding epochs by the total absence of human craft.
No-one will experience the glory of mastering artistic disciplines. No-one will believe it necessary to engage the practice of deep thought. Never again will learned, wise, complete beings who sacrificed decades of life to realise their genius exist in our world.
We will stumble on, of course, but as a sort of vestigial organ addicted to the infinite self-regurgitation of machine-generated culture until, lacking rationality, lacking solid ground, lacking any sense at all of our own infinite potential, we are whipped into a storm by a misunderstood joke or a convincing duplicate and commit acts of genocide against one other without quite understanding why.
Fight back. Study poetry. Learn an instrument. Write novels. Resist the temptation to replace any component of your humanity, any portion of your soul whatsoever, with an algorithm.
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