A Call for a Renaissance of Humanistic Art and Design

Cultivating Creativity in the Shadow of Generative AI

"…as I marvel at AI’s creative breakthroughs, I can’t shake a deep sense of disquiet. The tension I feel stems from a core belief: that human creativity emerges from a fundamentally different place than AI-generated content. Our creative impulse arises from lived, sensory experience—from our subconscious, our memories, from the unique way each human brain is wired. When we create, we’re transmuting the raw material of the self and the soul into an external representation. It’s deeply personal and one of the most profound things that makes us human.

"AI, on the other hand, creates through brute-force computation, scouring vast datasets identifying patterns and rules it can recombine into new permutations. It has no “self” to express, no real stake in what it creates. It’s a very different kind of creativity, one that to me feels a mile wide but an inch deep."

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