{"id":79,"date":"2023-01-05T09:24:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T09:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frenify.net\/envato\/frenify\/wp\/xoxo\/1\/?p=79"},"modified":"2023-08-01T06:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T06:11:20","slug":"how-i-kept-my-sense-of-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/wp\/muana\/1\/how-i-kept-my-sense-of-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Kept My Sense of Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

art our lives creatively confident, happy to create and share our work with pride. And then, as we age, our comfort with creative expression declines. We\u2019re discouraged by the learning curve of creative skills and tools, by our tendency to compare ourselves to others, and by the harsh opinions of critics. As Picasso famously quipped, \u201cAll children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, we\u2019re entering an era that changes everything.<\/strong> A few critical technology breakthroughs and fundamentally more accessible platforms are changing everything. From free web-based tools with templates that help conquer the fear of the blank screen to powerful generative artificial intelligence that conjures up anything from a text prompt, expressing yourself creatively no longer requires climbing creativity\u2019s notoriously steep learning curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most of those who have succeeded in life can trace their success back to the essential education they obtained from parents, teachers and\/ or friends.<\/strong><\/p>\nT-Ralph Olaniyi<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

People from communities of color are underrepresented in publishing. Our books make up less than six percent of the titles released each year, and that\u2019s despite a century of fighting against the gatekeepers. The results of this systematic exclusion are clear: we are also elided from the national conversation, starting in elementary school. Those who live in this country are trained by textbooks, libraries, classrooms, TV, and cinema to see US life as almost exclusively white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Death of Creativity\u2019s Learning Curve<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Welcome to an era in which the friction between an idea, and creatively expressing that idea, is removed. Whether it is as an image, an essay, an animated story, or even a video, you can simply talk about what you see in your mind\u2019s eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s not real creativity!\u201d some may exclaim. Until now, \u201ccreativity\u201d has conflated both the generation of ideas and the process involved to express those ideas. Michelangelo, for instance, believed that each stone has a statue inside it and the sculptor discovers it by chipping away. Most artists today can\u2019t afford 13 human assistants, but they use other tools to reduce the laborious parts of creativity, including AI-powered shortcuts, component libraries for product designers, templates, and now generative AI. This latest breakthrough has elicited both fanfare and fear because of its ability to conjure up an original piece of media based solely on a text prompt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the scenes, the machine learning engines that drive AI creation were trained using millions of pieces of content from real artists, many of whom never consented to have their work used in that way. To correct this, I anticipate a series of regulations, evolutions in copyright law, new walled gardens and token-gated portfolio experiences, and new compensation models for artists that opt-in and\/or allow the use of their style for GenerativeAI purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcoming & Adapting to Ubiquitous Creative Confidence<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As the expression of ideas becomes exponentially easier, the ideas themselves become more of the differentiator (yes, I think \u201cPrompt Engineering\u201d will become a discipline in and of itself!). Good ideas aren\u2019t derived solely from logic and patterns of the past; they\u2019re also the product of human traumas, mistakes of the eye, and uniquely human ingenuity. I am excited about AI, but I am ultimately long on creativity (aka humanity). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s important to distinguish pragmatism from the various forms of postmodern thinking<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Much like every sport\u2019s top athletes improve every generation, so should creatives. I would argue that AI is like some breakthrough new racket or sneaker \u2014 it almost unfairly elevates the game for every player and allows the very best to advance the game itself. Revolutionary tennis rackets and string technology allowed any weekend player to hit shots they never would have been capable of before. But it didn\u2019t turn them into Rafa Nadal or Roger Federer. People with extraordinary talent, dedication, and fortitude will always stand out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rome wasn\u2019t built in a day (\u2026or during a global pandemic), so give yourself grace on this design journey…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[4,10,15,7,8],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-health","tag-blog","tag-health","tag-humor","tag-image","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/wp\/muana\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/wp\/muana\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/wp\/muana\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/wp\/muana\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/wp\/muana\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/wp\/muana\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/wp\/muana\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/wp\/muana\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/wp\/muana\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/wp\/muana\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/wp\/muana\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}