Will AI Spark a Creativity Boom? The Misleading 'Tool' Heuristic
_akpiper · x · 2026-08-29
Some believe AI video, image, and music models are now good enough tools to let more people create art, potentially sparking a creativity boom amidst the content flood.
A counter-argument suggests creativity is not just a tool problem. The internet was also supposed to democratize creativity, a heuristic that has been largely misleading.
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