binarybits: If it's your idea, AI-assisted creation is still your creation
binarybits · x · 2026-10-19
Timothy B. Lee (binarybits) pushes back on hostility toward AI creativity: critics assume the end state is 'the AI doing the thing rather than you doing the thing with the AI as a tool.' He argues that's wrong — if the idea is yours, the creation is yours, much like photography remains a creative human activity even though the camera mechanically produces the image. People who prefer to do everything themselves are free to, but tool-mediated creation counts too.
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