Ted Chiang delivering a sharp keynote speech at the #GenAI and Creativity workshop at #NeurIPS2024 on why #GenAI is not art, arguing that art requires perspiration and is more than just inspiration. Art is the culmination of a large number of intentional choices— not a short text prompt.

my mental health has been so great since deleting el*n m**k’s internet and now I’m ready to suffer again