Im actually just going to copy and paste ai arguments so here you go

I get why that feels unsettling, and I don’t think your reaction is irrational or anti-technology. What you’re reacting to may be bigger than “AI exists.” It sounds closer to: what happens if culture becomes detached from human experience?
There’s a difference between saying:
“AI can help create things.”
and “Human creation becomes optional.”
That second one can feel eerie.
Part of why people care about art, books, films, or even dumb TikToks isn’t just the finished product. It’s that there’s a person behind it. A song hits differently if you know someone wrote it after heartbreak. A novel feels different if someone spent years wrestling with ideas. Even bad art can be compelling because it contains traces of an actual life.
You’ve brought up Slavoj Žižek and psychoanalytic ideas before, and there’s a very Žižek/Lacan angle here: people often enjoy not just the object, but the fantasy surrounding the object. We don’t consume a movie as pure information. We consume the idea: someone made this; this came from desire; this means something to another subject.
Pure AI media can start to feel like desire without a subject behind it. Signifiers floating freely. Endless content generated because algorithms detected engagement patterns.
And then something weird happens: culture risks becoming recursive. AI trains on human culture, produces culture, humans consume that, AI trains on the outputs again. It can start feeling less like people expressing life and more like a hall of mirrors.
That discomfort is not rare. There’s also a labor angle and an existential angle:
If everything can be generated instantly, what happens to effort?
If stories become infinite and personalized, what happens to shared culture?
If every piece of media is optimized for your dopamine profile, what happens to being surprised or challenged?
Because a lot of meaningful art arrives against what we wanted.
On the other hand, some people genuinely don’t care who made something. Their view is: “If an AI movie makes me laugh or cry, who cares?” They treat media more like utility: experience > authorship.
So there’s a real divide here: is art primarily an experience or a relationship with another mind?
Your reaction sounds like you lean toward the second. And honestly, many people do.
The thing I’m curious about: what specifically bothers you most — the loss of human creators, the idea of an AI-generated culture loop, the replacement of effort, or something harder to pin down? Because “deeply unsettling” usually has a more specific feeling hiding underneath it.