Writing as Thinking: What We Lose with Generative AI

A meditation on what happens when we let generative AI write for us

I’ve been pondering what Chris Lewis, the Catholic illustrator at BARITUS, said about AI removing the sacrificial dimension in making art. If you let generative AI make the drawing for you, it may be easier to get a finished product. But by the same token, you miss out on the sacrificial dimension of making the art altogether. You also never learn how t…