Okay, So the AI is Coming for Creative Workers. But, Is That the Real Problem?

Or, is the problem with AI something subtler and more pervasively insidious (a brief rant).

Odin Halvorson
3 min readDec 18, 2022

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Okay, so this is a hot issue as of the time of my writing, but I’ve got to weigh in because I think many of the discussions about the use of so-called “Artificial Intelligence” are missing something important.

The technology to create material through machine models is here, and probably here to stay.

But, that’s not the problem. The problem is that we treat art, blogs, and everything else in our lives as a generator for, or an afterthought to, financial gain. The concern with AI isn’t AI, the concern with AI is capitalism.

As we move further into an age of high technology, many of the jobs we’ve come to consider stable norms within our capitalist society are going to crumble and fade.

White-collar jobs will probably be the first to go, actually, though as Amazon has recently shown us, warehouse workers are marked for termination as well.

So, let me ask: why do you create art? Why do you write? Plenty of people are trying to live the dream of practicing a creative task and subsisting off of that work alone.

Odin Halvorson
Odin Halvorson

Written by Odin Halvorson

A futurist/socialist/fantasist writer, editor, and scholar. MFA/MLIS. Free access to my articles at OdinHalvorson.substack.com | More over at OdinHalvorson.com.

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