Showerthought: My kid's school art show made me rethink the whole AI thing

I was at the elementary school art fair in Ann Arbor last Friday, looking at all the finger paintings and clay sculptures. One kid had a whole wall of drawings he made with a free AI art app on his mom's tablet. They looked cool, but he couldn't explain how he made any of them, just kept clicking buttons. That hit me, you know? The other kids could point and say 'I mixed blue and yellow here' or 'this clay is bumpy because I pressed shells into it.' It made me wonder if the real creative part is knowing the steps, not just picking a result from a list. Has anyone else had a moment where seeing something simple changed how you see this whole debate?

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margaretramirez4d ago

Read a quote about that... tools without skills?

claire8724d ago

Yeah, that's the whole point right there.

nancyg144d ago

Honestly used to believe having the right software was everything. Then I watched my nephew try to edit a video with pro tools and it was a mess. The fancy program just made his bad cuts look more obvious. Now I get that skills turn tools into something useful, otherwise it's just a shiny distraction.