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# On being human and "creative"
- URL: https://werd.io/on-being-human-and-creative/
- Published: 2024-06-14T19:01:38.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-14T19:01:38.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: AI, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Heather Bryant](https://www.hbcompass.io/on-being-human-and-creative/)\]

> "What generative AI creates is not any one person's creative expression. Generative AI is only possible because of the work that has been taken from others. It simply would not exist without the millions of data points that the models are based upon. Those data points were taken without permission, consent, compensation or even notification because the logistics of doing so would have made it logistically improbable and financially impossible."

This is a wonderful piece from [Heather Bryant](https://www.hbcompass.io/) that explores the humanity - the effort, the emotion, the lived experience, the community, the unique combination of things - behind real-world art that is created by people, and the theft of those things that generative AI represents.

It's the definition of superficiality, and as Heather says here, living in a world made by *people*, rooted in experiences and relationships and reflecting actual human thought, is what I hope for. Generative AI is a *technical* accomplishment, for sure, but it is not a *humanist* accomplishment. There are no shortcuts to the human experience. And *wanting* a shortcut to human experience in itself devalues being human.

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\[[Link](https://www.hbcompass.io/on-being-human-and-creative/)\]