Do you know why we should not fear AI?
LinkedIn especially, often feels like doomscrolling. Between layoffs, people spending months and even years looking for a new job, freelancers slogging for connections to create relationships, and the ever present fearful chatter about AI from all points of view, it’s… exhausting. Humans fear of AI is crippling. Keep reading to learn why we should not fear AI.
Today, I came across a post talking about AI, and how, especially in the creative realm, it participates in intellectual theft. “AI isn’t creative, it’s just copying people who are.”
So true.
My friend, Todd Ellis, of Plain Brown Wrapper Media, made this comment, and it resonated with me:
“… the creative process is a PROCESS. If you eliminate a step, say “streamlining” you eliminate part of the PROCESS. Reading, listening, looking at something over & over & over again takes time, but it inspires change, strengthens flow, sparks new ideas (and a lot more I’d probably think of if I re-read this post a few times). If we eliminate that step (or any step) enough, we’ll forget how to do that step and everything suffers.
If we just bake biscuits out of a can, we lose all the skill of biscuit making grandma taught us. And those are some damn good biscuits.”
Look, I grew up in “the South” in rural central Florida. I know a good biscuit when I taste one. The ones made with bacon grease are the best.
Todd is right. We can use AI to help us along. Maybe. But if you’re actually participating in the CREATIVE PROCESS, then you have to go through each and every step of that process, in order to land in the ultimate creative nirvana.
In voiceover, there’s a creative process to understanding a script, and knowing how we can best represent the “voice” of that brand and message. If we skip any of those steps. the process suffers. I guarantee, a voice actor is not going to bring the best performance or perspective to their work.
We humans are unique. There is no machine or AI that is going to be able to replicate us, our minds, our experiences, or our creativity. There is no other thing in the world like humans.
Do not fear AI. Stop worrying about it taking our jobs. There is nothing… that can human like a human.
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