Jemma Spake
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1,071 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Apr
Jemma Spake’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's half of why it's enjoyable, because it challenges you and it gets you to it gets you to execute something complex and interesting.
And so when we have this easy technology that can do it for you, that can write the end of the script, that can generate the start of the poem, that can generate an image for a friend's birthday card, of course you're going to take it, especially in a world that values efficiency more than creativity.
And it always has.
However, every time we make that choice, we deny our brain's ability to tap into a specific kind of thinking called divergent thinking.
This is a type of free-flowing, undirected, mysterious thinking that generates new ideas and new perspectives and new answers.
Our ability for individual divergent thought is one of the most human things about us.
And it's made up of four things.
Fluency, the ability to develop a large number of ideas.
Flexibility, the ability to produce ideas in many categories.
Originality, the ability to think about something in a way that others couldn't.
And elaboration, the ability to take an abstract thought and make it into something real.
So basically have an idea, turn it into a piece of art.
If you take our ability for divergent thinking away due to disuse or replacing some part of that divergent thinking process with a machine, you take away a big part of your humanness.
I read this wonderful Substack article that said the most important thing creativity does for us is that it helps us know thyself.
And you cannot know thyself if you ask AI to generate ideas for you.
because you are relying on something beyond you that does not have a soul, does not have a spirit, to do the sacred work of a human.
It's treating creativity like something that needs to be efficient and productive and perfect and mass-produced, when that is the opposite of what it's intended to be.
When everyone ends up making the same stuff, the reflection of personhood and individuality that creativity is meant to channel is destroyed.
Essentially, over-relying on AI
is outsourcing your muse.
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