AI is "a shabby, boring and evil thing" – discuss

4 peterprescott 2 7/12/2025, 5:19:00 PM paulkingsnorth.substack.com ↗

Comments (2)

_wire_ · 4h ago
If AI is so smart and capable, let the AI discuss the topic and we'll read its discourse and be enlightened.

Otherwise this is a pointless topic.

peterprescott · 4h ago
> "Writing, like all creative forms, is a human endeavour. At its best it is pulled up from the soul and put down on the page, or the screen. We all use ‘tools’ of some kind to do this, like the keyboard I am now writing on. But AI is different. It does not help you to do your job; it does your job for you. It sucks up from the worldwide web the usings and doings and scrapings of the already-created and it rearranges them, pretending all the while that it has ‘created’ them itself. It imitates reality but can never replace it. It is, at root, a shabby, boring and actually evil thing. It is the end of art."