This blog post analyzes Mark Amerika’s musings on the fusion of human and non-human creativity through the integration of AI-driven software. Examples of AI generated writing as well as an interview with the remix-artist himself on the mysteries of creativity both artificial and biological are used for context.
What is your response to this kind of experimental writing with AI tools?
The readings provided for this blog post provided the unique opportunity to see both the authors standard writing in an interview format as well as writing done by AI that had analyzed the authors writing style. This in turn allowed unique insight into how these programs adapt and modify produced content to emulate the author’s quirks and nuances. Reading through the AI generated text, it was interesting to see this melding of man and machine into the kind of hybrid mind that the AI itself was talking about in the article. This hybrid mind of the future could potentially open the gateways to endless possibilities in the realms of literature. I believe more polished and perfected models will drastically change the evolution of this craft and could in turn even change the way the past is dictated. In my mind, I envision the creative arts eventually forced to confront something similar to the program Deep Blue that rocked the competitive chess world in the 90’s with its defeat of Gary Kasparov. Creativity of man outmatched by machine, but completely limitless through a hybrid mind.
How does Amerika understand the creative relationship with a GPT for creative writing or any kind of creative work?
The hybrid mind that the AI mentioned seems to be an essential concept to begin understanding the creative relationship necessary to produce truly personalized and unique creative work. Mark Amerika seems to place importance on this as well, remarking on the melding of mind and AI, the imitation of its “speculative riffs” and the subsequent remixing and refining of ideas that both minds toil to produce.