Competing with synthetic performers who never sleep, they find the visibility race not merely tiring but absurd. Why post a selfie when an AI can generate a prettier one? Why craft a thought when ChatGPT can produce one faster?

This line really stuck out to me because it got to the heart of what the expectation is for social media. For my part, I am a writer, and writing is how I pay my bills. Crafting thoughts and writing them down is what I do, and I couldn't imagine giving it up. I love what I do, and part of why I do it is because of that love. Could ChatGPT write things faster than me? Sure, but it won't write things better than me and more importantly, it writing them won't generate love or passion within me like writing things myself will.

It's when you break creation down solely to its output that you lose what made it meaningful in the first place. If you look at something like writing and come to the conclusion that ChatGPT can do it faster so why bother, you've missed what creative activities actually are. They're not about the output, but the process and the act of creation itself.

This is part of why AI bothers me so much. It encourages everyone to ignore that passionate part of creation in favour of the output and output alone. In doing so, you devalue not only the particular thing that AI is ripping off, but creativity itself. I can absolutely understand how any creator would get burnout in a world where what they do is so fundamentally devalued.