The advancement in AI narrows the gap between ideas and reality, but widens the gap between creation and meaning.
Thought
Artificial intelligence makes creating an essay, a website, an image, or even a video now just an LLM prompt away. It's never been easier to translate your ideas into reality.
Meanwhile, the amount of crappy content and products is also growing exponentially in the wild. Meaningless AI-generated images, generic AI articles, and videos are everywhere. Now there's even a Wikipedia page for this: AI slop.
The gap between idea and reality is bridged, but the distance between creation and meaning is enlarged like never before.
This makes an input I noted three years ago even more relevant now: efficient methods rarely create emotional arousal. AI as a creation tool can be too efficient and standardized. However, meaningful and soulful experiences are inefficient because they can't be standardized.