How Star Trek Predicted AI Slop

Blazing Reader,

In his video, How Star Trek Predicted AI Slop, Rowan J. Coleman explains why the #1 reason humans — rather than machines — should be creating art is not for the final product, but for the journey:

“If you want to be an artist, then be an artist. Don’t get a computer to do it for you. It’s hard work. But if creating art truly matters to you then you’ll persevere. 

“One of the worst notions surrounding art is that talent is some kind of innate quality you either have or you don’t. But that’s not true. Making art is a skill. And like any skill, we improve through practice. 

“So learn to relish the practice. Try, fail, and try again. And before you know it, you’ll have made some cool stuff. Maybe not as efficiently as a machine, but that’s what makes us human.”

Yes, AI can also make "some cool stuff" for you in under five seconds. But what you can create in five hours, or five days, or five months, will be all the more satisfying.

It took me about one-thousand hours (over the course of two years) to write my first novel. I wouldn't have had it any other way.

—John C.A. Manley

P.S. You can watch Coleman's How Star Trek Predicted AI Slop on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RFwX1g9bq8 

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.