🔗 Better to be Forgotten Than Disposable - by John Warner:

The point of putting books into the world isn’t to be forever immortalized. At least I don’t think that way. I’m not sure there is a larger point beyond simply engaging in the activity itself.

I wish I could explain this to the people who claim that AI is somehow a way to “democratize” the making of art by giving people who cannot write or compose or draw or sing or play an instrument access to tools of automation that eliminate the process of making the thing.

It’s the making that’s the art. Without the making, you don’t have anything meaningful.

I think this point cannot be overemphasized. I full endorse it.