I can't edit the typo I made with laying vs lying, but at least you know it's not written by AI 😂

AI is the epitome of the crisis already started with the industrial revolution. It’s not to be accepted, as I would not accept laying down and dying either.

As we end up walking in streets where there’s nothing to look at, watching reels predicted by the greek seers, eating food made exactly like the chain tells them to make it, we truly stop experiencing life itself.

This makes our brain merge events together, day to day, year to year, since what would separate Tuesday from Monday two years ago?

These things, these human-made, personal, weird occurances are disappearing, as everything becomes more and more streamlined, fast-paced, mass produced, and I think it has one major disadvantage for the human experience: When everything becomes the same, there is no novelty for the brain to pick up.

There is nothing to stop for, to admire, to carefully look at, to wonder: Who made this? Why is there a small horse flying in the carpet weave?

Imagine a street without a hint of architects love. The grey buildings after sand-colored buildings after modest brown. The door handles lack design and character, the key to every house is the same.

Imagine the loneliness of pushing a button to create a Marvel Movie, and then watching. No one came together to argue how the plot should be, and no one saw it with you either. It was perfectly catered for you, triggering you with what you think is wrong, bringing relief in ways you expected.

When nothing is done with care and effort, there’s nothing to appreciate, to wonder, to admire.

The thing that makes AI terrifying is not that it’s stealing someone’s job. It’s not that it makes it million times easier to produce a video. It’s not even the enviromental cost, if compared to what it does to our psyche as human beings.

I want to ask: Did we survive? Did we actually get better of from letting factories produce our clothes, our houses, our kitchenware? Is it truly a magnificent world where we live now, with abundance of stuff and that does not falter (or if it does, is as easily replacable as a disposable cup)?

While one driven by greed, industrialization, and mechanical efficiency will create soulless and uninspired works. Sounds familiar? I’m not about to make the point that since factories happened and we survived, AI should as well happen, as it’s just part of the inevitable train of progression.

John Ruskin, art critic and inspiration to the movement, wrote that art is not merely an aesthetic pursuit but a reflection of the ethical and moral health of a civilization. To Ruskin, a society that values truth, integrity, and human welfare will produce great art, ->

This is not the first time humans have faced craftmanship traded for mass production. At late 19th century the Arts & Crafts movement was formed, a rebellion to the rise of factories, that at the time were viewed as “a insult to craftmanship, severing people from the joy of craftmanship”.