In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource
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Summary
The quarrying of human creativity by AI to be used in technology is threatening to drown the value of human creative outputs in a sea of synthetic mediocrity.
This threatens to homogenise human culture and flatten the richness of human expression into average statistical data.
Human brains are required for making meaningful connections and generating new ideas, which are inherently throttled due to our experiences, emotions and limited lifespans.
There are benefits in diversity of thought derived from human cognition, which can help us escape uniform thinking patterns, and this is eroded by monolithic AI-generated sources.
