...wasn't it the old moat as well?

If the op/poster is here, you will appreciate this: Waters of Life by Mystical Sun (Deeperworlds, 2006). See if that rings any bells.

I like this angle. You also need enough technical ability to know what is now possible. People are very used to being limited by technology and by the limited resources of human implementation. Getting un-used to that is a new form of creativity which should be fostered. This should in turn lead to more ideas being tried, more iteration on those ideas.

It's going to make for a lot of stuff, and a lot lot lot of it will be slop. It might be too exhausting to wade through. So there will be generative creativity to produce that mountain of new stuff, but then there's editorial capacity (taste?) that will be able to choose the meaningful results which should get further resources and development.

Both of these will be needed!

First time a typeface violates my sensibilities enough to close the the article before reading

funny enough this looks written by AI. could have used a little more creativity.

I almost think this doesn't go far enough.

Now LLMs make a certain amount of genericity so easy it will become more repulsive than things which are full on bad taste to different sorts of people.

My gut feeling is the web world will experience something like the Japanese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heta-uma fad where things which are bad are good because at least they are authentic.

Maybe everyone has it backwards. They shouldn't be mad at everyone pumping out AI shit. They should be mad at all the crappy stuff we were forced to endure that was no better than AI shit. The only difference is the crap doesn't cost anything anymore.

The emperor has no clothes.

> The Present Works and is Boring

"Genuine creativity" for mundane web sites is a reason to close the page and buy from someone else. I'm tired of the overcomplication. The page jerking around as more crap is loaded. One minute page loads on mobile (looking at you, CNN).

All that has negative value if you just want to buy the thing. I just got done with an "instant quote" site that took 12 hours to respond for a request for a mattress install.

ai is the natural evolution of language. it's the next level of that device.

creativity is you wandering the aisles of walmart, pushing your cart past shelves of all kinds of devices.

Meta: isn't it still 2026 pretty much globally? When did we switch from only labelling older articles with their year?

AI can be creative. My AI told me to imagine a lighthouse milking a cloud. That's pretty wacky.

... 4 upvotes in 6 minutes - I wonder how many people got the obscure reference to The Standup talking about how the AI always generates a lighthouse milking a cloud when asked to generate wacky scenarios. (I don't know which AI)