Dear Friend,
I recently reconnected with Amani, a first-generation art student I mentored a year ago. I expected to hear about her first big break; instead, I found a sobering reality: a talented creator struggling to find her footing in a market flooded with "soulless" AI-generated imagery.
Amani’s perspective on the "uncanny sheen" of generative AI is a wake-up call for all of us. While corporations chase the cost-savings of automation, she argues we are losing the intentionality of the human process—the sketches, the revisions, the voice and hand of the artist.
Yet, in this digital quagmire, she sees a glimmer of hope: a rising fatigue that is pushing people back to museums, libraries, and most importantly the beautiful imperfections of the human touch.
In this blog post I shared Amani’s insights on why the hand behind the work matters now more than ever, and why the future of creativity might actually lie in returning to the natural world.
