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46. What if AI is doing what artists have always done?

I think Picasso is actually a great example for this discussion. Few people would argue that he wasn’t innovative, yet his work was heavily influenced by earlier artistic traditions, African masks, and the artists around him.

That’s why I’ve always been skeptical of the idea of completely original ideas. Picasso demonstrates that innovation and influence aren’t opposites. In fact, innovation often emerges from transforming existing influences into something unexpected. Even many of history’s greatest innovators were standing on foundations built by countless people before them. Their genius was in what they did with those influences.

Part of what makes the AI debate so fascinating is that AI appears to be doing something superficially similar: absorbing vast amounts of existing work and recombining it into new forms. The difference, I suspect, is not the process itself but the fact that the entity doing it isn’t human. We tend to celebrate influence, borrowing, and synthesis when people do it, but many of us become uncomfortable when a machine does something that resembles the same creative process. Whether that discomfort is justified is a separate question, but I think that’s where much of the tension comes from.