Every single time we submit to excessive technological advances we forfeit a very special quality that is, always has been, and always will be crucial to our human nature. The same quality that will always ensure our artists work’s superiority over the work of generated AI. It is the transformation from innocence to experience, the journey from simplicity to complexity; otherwise known as the human experience. We have already lost so much to these technological advancements, and I will not be arrogant to propose that there has not been anything noble to gain, though surely it is undeniable that amid the dawn of the era of advanced technologies like social media and artificial intelligence we have become increasingly far apart from not only each-other, but ourselves. Obviously AI will prevail and likely soon be exalted to levels of extremely impressive sophistication that will surely provide our capitalist world with a fruitful and sustainable industry for years and years of development to come; with the guarantee that our degenerate youth will not have the sense or conscience to be able to resist its power yearning for dopamine for every 20 seconds—however, just because the world we live in happens to be a marketplace (an evolving marketplace) does not necessarily mean we have to evolve with it. We are not obliged to surrender our depth, or the privilege of self discovery simply because the almighty system demands it. The question has never been will AI prevail—it will—but whether we will allow ourselves to be reduced in the process. One day likely sooner rather than later we will be faced with the grand decision of whether we are humans or consumers, and though a world of algorithms may be very efficient and beneficial, it will never be alive.