Merzmensch publishes essay arguing AI is creative only in collaboration with humans
Merzmensch · x · 2026-10-12
German magazine Neue Gesellschaft / Frankfurter Hefte has published media artist Merzmensch's position paper "Kann KI kreativ sein?" His tl;dr: AI is creative, but only in collaboration with humans, and machines aren't taking creativity away from us—we're wrong to believe creativity was ever solely ours. It appears in a pro/con section alongside a piece by Vladimir Alexeev.
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