Again in Elk: "@thomasfuchs There are many like you, and not..."

It is not an extreme position to want to be able to think for yourself, to write by just typing words in, to learn things from other people or to make art with your hands.

There are many like you, and nothing is stopping you from doing that.
There are also many that enjoy the new capabilities for creativity with AI. Both can exist.

March 14, 2026 at 8:06:01 AM

not if the tools are baked into software in ways that make it difficult avoid, & not if senior management (or even just direct managers) are all-in on the hype and tie salary & job performance reviews to “AI” (

) adoption

and while there are ways to be genuinely creative using generative AI tools for (e.g.) image generation, this is not what the tools are designed to do – they’re designed to ingest other people’s creativity & regurgitate it in a watered-down, blander version of the original