AI cheerleaders framed creative skill barriers as classist monopolies to be abolished.

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Yet ultrapoptimists found something inspirational in AI. These tools removed all remaining barriers to creativity—money, time, skills—that locked noncreators out of artistic pursuits. National Novel Writing Month organizers refused to reject the use of AI, citing “classist and ableist undertones” to any complaints. The CEO of Suno, a music-generation start-up, pitched AI as a democratizing force: “There’s this entire side of music around creating music and enjoying the process of creating that most people just don’t have access to, because they don’t play an instrument, or they don’t know some complicated piece of production software. And what we do is we let everybody make the music that’s in their heads.” AI companies vowed to end the evil monopoly of pernicious creators who dared take the time to make things with a sense of craft and intention. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 697

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