Create v. Generate, 2025.
Generative Pre-Trained Transformer has been my biggest source of existential crisis since the release of its third generation back in early 2023, which could generate human-like messages. Yet, paradoxically, it's the second-most-used technology in my life (nothing beats the gram). I use it to help with work and silly questions, and while I'm slightly embarrassed to say it, I have even used it as my unpaid therapist on more than one occasion. It would not be wrong to call it one of the greatest inventions by human beings, if not the greatest. As a writer, despite AI being able to write impressive stories and create pretty pictures for a long time, I believe that AI's fatal flaw is that it doesn't have a soul. This flaw makes it impossible for AI to generate any art that connects to human beings on a level deeper than mere aesthetics. This brings me to the subject I need to rant about today: the make-my-pictures Ghibli trend . ...
