Generative AI automated the act of creation itself for everyday users

Evidence

In an AI era, technology didn’t just provide new tools or platforms for fostering human creativity: It automated the act of creation itself. Aspiring creators could outsource their writing, illustration, photo editing, and even songwriting to machines. While the technology was far from perfect—large language models often “hallucinated” facts with alarming confidence—it performed enough magic tricks to simultaneously delight and unsettle society. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 692

In an AI era, technology didn’t just provide new tools or platforms for fostering human creativity: It automated the act of creation itself. Aspiring creators could outsource their writing, illustration, photo editing, and even songwriting to machines. While the technology was far from perfect—large language models often “hallucinated” facts with alarming confidence—it performed enough magic tricks to simultaneously delight and unsettle society. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 692

Categorization

• XREF: Core to the reader’s goal: AI automating creation is the endpoint mechanism of the omnivore monoculture — when anyone can create anything, nothing signals taste.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 692