I had a post removed from a group I’m not even part of. I’d been recommended into it, shared something, and it got flagged because I mentioned AI helped me organize my thoughts. The rule I tripped was basically: if AI touched it, it isn’t your work. That stuck with me, and not in the way they meant. Because here’s what the process actually is. The thoughts are mine. The thinking is mine. The ideas, the connections, the thing I’m trying to say… all mine. What the technology does is take off the part that was never the creative part anyway: the cleanup. The slow, tax-heavy work of getting a fast messy thought into something readable. And that tax is the thing that’s been killing creativity for people who work like I do. When you have to stop and clean up every idea to make it usable, you can’t stay in the mode where the good stuff actually lives… the fast, raw, associative, dirty-creative mode. You throttle down to editing speed, and most of the mess never survives the trip. The cleanup is slow enough that it kills the flow. Take the tax off, and you get to stay dirty. You get to generate at the speed the ideas actually arrive. You get to be the messy, fast, unfiltered creative you never had time to be, because being that way used to mean hours of cleanup nobody had. That’s not “AI did the work.” That’s “the thing that was stopping me from doing my work the way it actually wants to come out finally got removed.” The world seems to be stuck in a black and white place when it comes to AI. But that’s maybe 10% of people, the ones living in those two extremes. Everybody else lives in the gray, where it’s more collaboration and helpfulness than it is getting AI to make something for us. Because a lot of us just want to get the ideas we already have in our heads out. They see AI in the process and assume it replaced the human. It didn’t. It removed the bottleneck. The thoughts are mine. There are just more of them, faster and messier, because I’m not spending all my energy on the part that was never the point. Dirty creative. Guilt-free, for the first time. submitted by /u/CrOble
Originally posted by u/CrOble on r/ArtificialInteligence