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The people I have encountered who claim ai helps with creativity always seem to assume they are naturally “creative” but are held back by a lack of technical talent. Which is why they sometimes call actual artists “gatekeepers”.
I think this whole belief about ai helping people be creative comes from the belief that creativity and skill are separate things. But if you have ever tried to practice an art you would know they are part of the same whole. You can’t be a creative painter without understanding how to represent a perspective, or understanding how light and shadow interact, etc. You build those understandings through practice. There are no shortcuts.
I am person with lack on creativity and ai with no creativity have more creativity than me, so sometimes i using it as "give me variants" and maybe ill choose one or probably it helps me to choose the way in thoughts to imagine the better variant. Or ill just waste the time with ai...
That's okay (discounting energy consumption I guess) but you would be wrong if you thought you were creative or an artist doing it.