That point about student essays is a great comparison. Those are not things the world at large needs; it's the students who need the process of creating them.
I'm really struggling with how hard this is for people to understand. In my post about my book being stolen to train ChatGPT, I noted that even my own husband (who loves tech) excitedly showed me how ChatGPT could "write an essay in your style" and how difficult it became for me to explain why that has no attraction for me (and was in fact offensive, combined as it was with the fact that it could supposedly do so -- I didn't check -- because it had stolen my work).
It's like asking why people garden. If you have money and access, you can buy fresh produce that's just as good or better. But that's not mostly why people garden. They do it because *they like gardening* -- every aspect of it, from being among the plants and birds and butterflies, to putting hands in the soil, to checking on seedlings, to harvesting ... we do things more because we enjoy the process than because we want the result.
That point about student essays is a great comparison. Those are not things the world at large needs; it's the students who need the process of creating them.
I'm really struggling with how hard this is for people to understand. In my post about my book being stolen to train ChatGPT, I noted that even my own husband (who loves tech) excitedly showed me how ChatGPT could "write an essay in your style" and how difficult it became for me to explain why that has no attraction for me (and was in fact offensive, combined as it was with the fact that it could supposedly do so -- I didn't check -- because it had stolen my work).
It's like asking why people garden. If you have money and access, you can buy fresh produce that's just as good or better. But that's not mostly why people garden. They do it because *they like gardening* -- every aspect of it, from being among the plants and birds and butterflies, to putting hands in the soil, to checking on seedlings, to harvesting ... we do things more because we enjoy the process than because we want the result.
I think the big sell from Big tech is that you are not supposed to do things anymore. Doing is for schmucks.
Unless it’s doing ayahuasca and cultural appropriation at Burning Man?
I’ll let myself out. ;)
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I look forward to the next time you offer your sketching people workshop. I’ll make sure I’m able to come!
Definitely!