> The real danger to human creativity that these tools represent is the mechanization of human innovation. Relying on these tools will discourage us from looking beyond what has been done before, and further reduce innovation into no more than imitative remixing. Businesses and corporations assert that mechanization will benefit both the worker and the consumer. It’ll save time and make things more efficient.
Efficiency holds back innovation and creativity. It focuses on cost at the expense of discovery and exploration.
That quote: I don’t buy it. There is plenty of incremental innovation now and more ambitious people still shoot for the stars. If AI is mediocre and doesn’t solve what humans want to solve, it won’t replace human desire for real innovation.
Ideas are cheap and plentiful, everyone has them. They will be pursued, just in greater numbers.
Most of the incremental innovation I've seen from tech for the past ten years has been darkpatterns, enshittification, surveillance, and profit-driven exploitation.
No it doesn't. Efficiency unlocks bandwidth for us to explore on higher levels and new directions, and it always has. Efficiency of energy production, manufacturing, transportation, information sharing etc – you cannot seriously believe that these did not spark new waves of innovation and creativity.
Efficiency holds back innovation and creativity. It focuses on cost at the expense of discovery and exploration.