„Dear Leon and Charlie,<\/p>\n
In the story of the creation, God makes the world, and everything in it, in six days. On the seventh day he rests. The day of rest is significant because it suggests that the creation required a certain effort on God\u2019s part, that some form of artistic struggle had taken place. This struggle is the validating impulse that gives God\u2019s world its intrinsic meaning. The world becomes more than just an object full of other objects, rather it is imbued with the vital spirit, the pneuma, of its creator.<\/p>\n
ChatGPT rejects any notions of creative struggle,\u00a0that our endeavours animate and nurture our lives giving\u00a0them\u00a0depth and meaning. It rejects\u00a0that there is a collective, essential and unconscious human spirit underpinning our existence, connecting us all through our mutual striving.<\/p>\n
ChatGPT is fast-tracking the commodification of the human spirit by mechanising the imagination. It renders our participation in the act of creation as valueless and unnecessary. That \u2018songwriter \u2018you were talking to, Leon, who is using ChatGPT to write \u2018his\u2019 lyrics because it is \u2018faster and easier,\u2019is participating in this erosion of the world\u2019s soul and the spirit of humanity itself and, to put it politely, should fucking desist if he wants to continue calling himself a songwriter.<\/p>\n
ChatGPT\u2019s intent is to eliminate the process of creation\u00a0and its attendant challenges, viewing it as nothing more than a time-wasting inconvenience that stands in the way of the commodity itself. Why strive?, it contends. Why bother with the artistic process and its accompanying trials? Why shouldn\u2019t we make it \u2018faster and easier\u2019?<\/p>\n
When the God of the Bible looked upon what He had created, He did so with a sense of accomplishment and saw that \u2018it was good\u2018. \u2018It was good \u2018because it required something of His own self, and His struggle imbued creation with a moral imperative, in short love<\/em>. Charlie, even though the creative act requires considerable effort, in the end you will be contributing to the vast network of love that supports human existence. There are all sorts of temptations in this world that will eat away at your creative spirit, but none more fiendish than that boundless machine of artistic demoralisation, ChatGPT.<\/p>\n As humans, we so often feel helpless in our own smallness, yet still we find the resilience to do and make beautiful things, and this is where the meaning of life resides. Nature reminds us of this constantly. The world is often cast as a purely malignant place, but still the joy of creation exerts itself, and as the sun rises upon the struggle of the day, the Great Crested Grebe dances upon the water. It is our striving that becomes the very essence of meaning. This impulse \u2013 the creative dance \u2013 that is now being so cynically undermined, must be defended at all costs, and just as we would fight any existential evil, we should fight it tooth and nail, for we are fighting for the very soul of the world.<\/p>\n Love, Nick“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" „Dear Leon and Charlie, In the story of the creation, God makes the world, and everything in it, in six days. On the seventh day he rests. The day of rest is significant because it suggests that the creation required … Weiterlesen