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In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource

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80% Informative

As tech giants rush to build newer AI models, their web crawlers vacuum up creative content, and those same models spew floods of synthetic media, risking drowning out the human creative spark in an ocean of pablum.

The preservation of the human human creative ecosystem not just an ethical concern but an urgent imperative.

The alternative is nothing less than a gradual homogenization of our cultural landscape.

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80

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78

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38

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informal

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English

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69

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long-living

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22

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