Kate Wagner

They can just like ask AI, like what is brutalism?

And it'll give you like some

boring answer about like the barbican center or whatever and you're like yep that's enough for me like that's totally fine and it's like wow you're really robbing yourself of the joy of the labor of developing taste which i think is a real shame and i think it's especially a shame when it comes to like creating things too it's like a process it's a way of thinking it's a way of loving things and if you just like plug that stuff into a chatbot you're really depriving yourself of one of the great human experiences

Yeah, I also think it causes a crisis.

Of course it causes a crisis in people like us who are afraid that we're going to be replaced by AI or all of our stuff is going to get stolen without our consent.

But I also just think that a big cultural anxiety now is the anxiety about being lonely.

And I think a lot of these companies want to capitalize on what is really like a kind of loneliness epidemic.

And so it's not only that you'd want to have like good taste, you want to have the right answers as to like whether you should wear Solomon's sneakers or whether Gorp Corps is over.

But like you also...

are afraid that you have no one to share this stuff with.

Like, the point of being human is to recognize the humanity in others.

And it's like, if there's just no humanity in the process, if it's just like abstraction, then you're basically just kind of negating your entire self.

Like, it's just, there's nothing there.

And I think that is terrifying, but also deeply sad.

Well, okay.

I actually think that is really important because I think we've become afraid of being amateurs.

Like we have this kind of generational fear of sucking that I think is like really a part of why social media was so detrimental because it's all about the finished product.

You have to be like amazing so it can go viral.

And I think that that's a completely unfair standard by which we should judge ourselves.

I think we should be writing crappy poems.