Using AI in professional work.

As AI generated imagery and videos approach the miniature singularity of being indistinguishable from reality, this brings about an important consideration for not only service and labor workers faced with the prospect of losing their livelyhoods, but also for all aspects of creative work.

It can be thought of as a siren in the deep unknown waters of neural networks, calling sailors to dive overboard with beautiful tempting promises.
If you do take the plunge, you are overwhelmed by short-term gratification and even some creative gains.
New ideas you hadnt considered, visual concepts merged into new visions, awe-inspiring strategies for abusing the psychology of an audience.

But as you remain in the deep, becoming evermore dependant on the siren’s whispers of beautiful promises and ideas, something slowly begins to change within your own vision of your own creative endeavors..
They are no longer your own, but rather you are transformed from a creator, to a middle-manager between the true creative genius (the AI), and its audience, no longer your audience.

To put it more concretely, the more we rely on AI generative content, the less “we” actually create as we outsource our very human soul, our very sentient spirit of what art means and why it means anything to other humans, to a cold machine which doesnt understand what it “is” to feel anything after watching a gripping movie or listening to a tearwrenching song.

AI is powerful, as a tool it is extraordinarily valuable. Even for creative endeavors, absolutely no question about that.
But we should take care to use it as a tool, not as a substitute for our creative muse, for our spirit. For our “gut feeling”.

For example, using generative AI to achieve goals we otherwise couldnt reasonably achieve manually.
Transitions between entirely different scenes, where our own human vision require a magical blend from one scene to another without just traditional fade or swipe transitions. A few seconds tying two human visions together.

But using it to entirely morph what we created into something that essentially becomes the AI’s own creative property, or outright generate full complete content with only prompt engineering as our human input, is an inevitably self-destructive sip of the sirens call.

Risks of creative atrophy, and the rise of human-made value.

The more we rely on AI, the less we grow and learn.
We become wholly dependant on it, and cannot create equivalent work without it. We become creative imposters.

As time passes, our audiences will grow tired of endless perfect AI creations, and will crave for something “real” again.
”AI slop” is nowhere near reaching its peak.

The hitherto unknown concept of “Human-made” will attain value as a new currency of authenticity, of meaning something.