AI will make most content and that's good, argues Crawford; critics call it an existential loss
sebkrier · x · 2026-10-15
A debate on the future of human creativity
- Jason Crawford argues: humans will never stop creating for joy and self-expression, but AI will produce most future content—just as machines displaced physical labor—yielding an abundance of affordable, high-quality text, images, and music. Net outcome: very good, even if emotionally hard.
- Gregory Conti pushes back viscerally: living in a world where text, images, and music are no longer human-made is an existential change causing him sorrow "every waking moment."
A representative clash between the abundance logic of AI-generated content and the anxiety over losing human authorship.
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