Did we give up before AI arrived?
Plenty of creative pundits are decrying the speed and cost of creating pretty good work with an AI. It can often draw, write and compose as well as a mediocre freelancer, sometimes better.
But why were there mediocre freelancers?
The system that pushed us to turn our writing into oatmeal and our art into paint by numbers was here long before OpenAi showed up.
When the bar is raised, it challenges each of us to do what we already had the power to do–exceed the minimum.