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Handmade things have value beyond their usefulness, in the sacrifice of time that went into them.
Their wordsThat scarf has value not because it's a great scarf but because I chose to spend an irreplaceable fraction of my life making it. It's a symbol of how much I care about her. In short, it has meaning.
Their wordsGenerative AI, when wielded deftly, can be an amazing tool for creating things with utility faster and more easily than you ever could before. But it can't generate meaning. The giant matrix of floating point numbers in a rack of GPUs in some data center does not love you.
Their wordsThe high level point is just that the more we automate the process of making a thing, the less of ourselves we put into it. And an object with less of ourselves in it is often valued less by the person who receives it.
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