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The Tortured Artist Is So Yesterday

41 years ago, Samuel Lipman wrote that an artist’s life is a “constant—and constantly losing—battle” against one’s own limits. That image has lasted because print culture taught us to imagine the artist as a solitary figure whose worth is measured by the perfection of a single, final work. Print fixed texts in place, elevated the individual author, and made loneliness part of the creative job description.

That world is slipping away.
And with it, the tortured artist.

LLMs have made competent expression abundant. The blank page no longer terrifies; anyone can produce something fluent and polished. When craft becomes cheap, suffering loses its meaning as a marker of artistic seriousness. What becomes scarce instead is the willingness to take a risk—not in private, but in public, where a stance can fail, provoke, or be reshaped by others.

Venkatesh Rao recently argued that authorship is no longer about labor but about courage: the courage to commit to a line of thought and accept the consequences of being wrong. In an era of infinite variations, the decisive act is not creation but commitment. The value lies in staking something of yourself on an idea that may not survive.

This shift is reshaping where culture is made. In what I’ve called the “Cloister Web,” people draft and explore ideas in semi-private creative rooms before carrying only a few into the open. LLMs make experimentation cheap; they also make commitment expensive. The hard part now is choosing which idea you are willing to be accountable for.

As the burden of execution drops, something else rises: genuine collaboration. Not just collaboration with models, but with other humans. Andrew Gelman, reflecting on Lipman in a recent StatModeling post, noted that scientists, too, feel versions of this pressure of the solitary creator. In science, the burden rarely falls on one person. The struggle is distributed across collaborative projects that outlive any single contributor.

Groups can explore bolder directions than any one creator working alone. Risk spreads, ideas compound, and the scale of what can be attempted expands. The solitary genius was an artifact of print; the collaborative creative lab is the natural form of the world we are entering.

This leads to a claim many will resist but few will be able to ignore: the single author is beginning to collapse as a cultural technology. What will matter in the coming decades is not the finished artifact but the evolving line of thought carried forward by teams willing to take risks together.

The tortured artist belonged to an age defined by scarcity, perfection, and solitude. Today’s creator faces a different task: to choose a risk worth taking and the collaborators worth taking it with. The work endures not because it is flawless, but because a group has committed to pushing it forward.

Pain is optional now.

Risk isn’t.

#aiAndArt #aiTools #artificialIntelligence #chatgpt #collaborativeCreativity #contentCreation #creativeAi #creativeProcess #culturalTrends #digitalCulture #digitalWriting #entrepreneurship #futureOfCreativity #futureOfWork #generativeAi #innovation #llmTechnology #philosophyOfTechnology #technologyTrends #writingWithAi

Moth & ILĀ dropped Recurse, the 1st commercial track using quantum generative AI. It’s otherworldly, with ILĀ in control, showing tech can enhance, not replace, artists. A new creative era begins. #QuantumMusic #AIinMusic #FutureOfCreativity

Moth & ILĀ dropped Recurse, the 1st commercial track using quantum generative AI. It’s otherworldly, with ILĀ in control, showing tech can enhance, not replace, artists. A new creative era begins. #QuantumMusic #AIinMusic #FutureOfCreativity

Daily Inspiration: "AI? It’s a creativity steroid!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Smart creative types are quickly learning how to leverage the idea of AI art, and are drinking from a creative firehose. It is simply staggering to see how quickly things are evolving out there.

Take the case of Kelly Boesch. I have no idea who she is, or where she is located, but am mesmerized by her work after it crossed my path one day.

Check out this fascinating video, with all the scenes AND music generated by AI. (The scenes are from MidJourney, animated with RunwayML, and the music is from Suno.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ikd7C0smQ

Writes Kelly in her post related to her work:

I’m completely obsessed with AI. I create AI images and video. Hope you enjoy my stuff.

She goes on:

I made another one of these dancing music videos last night. It took me a while to get a song i liked and then i finally got this . The images were made with #Midjourney. Animated with @Runway. Music made with #Sunoai.

That will mostly be incomprehensible, but it implies that she is working hard at redefining her creative boundaries through a relentless exploration of what she can do with all the AI tools available to her.

Suffice it to say, I'm obsessed with her work. Here's another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3FYQs3HeBw

You can find her work on Youtube, Instagram, and other social networks -> https://www.instagram.com/kelly_boesch_ai_art/

This is but one person working away at exploring the boundaries of AI to explore their artistic imaginations. There are thousands if not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of folks like Kelly, working away, redefining their creativity engines.

Stay tuned and buckle up - AI is a steroid for creativity!

#AICreativity #CreativeInnovation #ArtRevolution #AIArt #FutureOfCreativity #DigitalArt #ExplorePossibilities #Innovation #CreativeTools #NextGenArt

https://jimcarroll.com/2024/10/daily-inspiration-ai-its-a-creativity-steroid/

Daily Inspiration: "AI? It’s a creativity steroid!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Smart creative types are quickly learning how to leverage the idea of AI art, and are drinking from a creative firehose. It is simply staggering to see how quickly things are evolving out there.

Take the case of Kelly Boesch. I have no idea who she is, or where she is located, but am mesmerized by her work after it crossed my path one day.

Check out this fascinating video, with all the scenes AND music generated by AI. (The scenes are from MidJourney, animated with RunwayML, and the music is from Suno.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ikd7C0smQ

Writes Kelly in her post related to her work:

I’m completely obsessed with AI. I create AI images and video. Hope you enjoy my stuff.

She goes on:

I made another one of these dancing music videos last night. It took me a while to get a song i liked and then i finally got this . The images were made with #Midjourney. Animated with @Runway. Music made with #Sunoai.

That will mostly be incomprehensible, but it implies that she is working hard at redefining her creative boundaries through a relentless exploration of what she can do with all the AI tools available to her.

Suffice it to say, I'm obsessed with her work. Here's another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3FYQs3HeBw

You can find her work on Youtube, Instagram, and other social networks -> https://www.instagram.com/kelly_boesch_ai_art/

This is but one person working away at exploring the boundaries of AI to explore their artistic imaginations. There are thousands if not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of folks like Kelly, working away, redefining their creativity engines.

Stay tuned and buckle up - AI is a steroid for creativity!

#AICreativity #CreativeInnovation #ArtRevolution #AIArt #FutureOfCreativity #DigitalArt #ExplorePossibilities #Innovation #CreativeTools #NextGenArt

https://jimcarroll.com/2024/10/daily-inspiration-ai-its-a-creativity-steroid/

Daily Inspiration: "AI? It’s a creativity steroid!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Smart creative types are quickly learning how to leverage the idea of AI art, and are drinking from a creative firehose. It is simply staggering to see how quickly things are evolving out there.

Take the case of Kelly Boesch. I have no idea who she is, or where she is located, but am mesmerized by her work after it crossed my path one day.

Check out this fascinating video, with all the scenes AND music generated by AI. (The scenes are from MidJourney, animated with RunwayML, and the music is from Suno.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ikd7C0smQ

Writes Kelly in her post related to her work:

I’m completely obsessed with AI. I create AI images and video. Hope you enjoy my stuff.

She goes on:

I made another one of these dancing music videos last night. It took me a while to get a song i liked and then i finally got this . The images were made with #Midjourney. Animated with @Runway. Music made with #Sunoai.

That will mostly be incomprehensible, but it implies that she is working hard at redefining her creative boundaries through a relentless exploration of what she can do with all the AI tools available to her.

Suffice it to say, I'm obsessed with her work. Here's another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3FYQs3HeBw

You can find her work on Youtube, Instagram, and other social networks -> https://www.instagram.com/kelly_boesch_ai_art/

This is but one person working away at exploring the boundaries of AI to explore their artistic imaginations. There are thousands if not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of folks like Kelly, working away, redefining their creativity engines.

Stay tuned and buckle up - AI is a steroid for creativity!

#AICreativity #CreativeInnovation #ArtRevolution #AIArt #FutureOfCreativity #DigitalArt #ExplorePossibilities #Innovation #CreativeTools #NextGenArt

https://jimcarroll.com/2024/10/daily-inspiration-ai-its-a-creativity-steroid/

Daily Inspiration: "AI? It’s a creativity steroid!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Smart creative types are quickly learning how to leverage the idea of AI art, and are drinking from a creative firehose. It is simply staggering to see how quickly things are evolving out there.

Take the case of Kelly Boesch. I have no idea who she is, or where she is located, but am mesmerized by her work after it crossed my path one day.

Check out this fascinating video, with all the scenes AND music generated by AI. (The scenes are from MidJourney, animated with RunwayML, and the music is from Suno.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ikd7C0smQ

Writes Kelly in her post related to her work:

I’m completely obsessed with AI. I create AI images and video. Hope you enjoy my stuff.

She goes on:

I made another one of these dancing music videos last night. It took me a while to get a song i liked and then i finally got this . The images were made with #Midjourney. Animated with @Runway. Music made with #Sunoai.

That will mostly be incomprehensible, but it implies that she is working hard at redefining her creative boundaries through a relentless exploration of what she can do with all the AI tools available to her.

Suffice it to say, I'm obsessed with her work. Here's another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3FYQs3HeBw

You can find her work on Youtube, Instagram, and other social networks -> https://www.instagram.com/kelly_boesch_ai_art/

This is but one person working away at exploring the boundaries of AI to explore their artistic imaginations. There are thousands if not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of folks like Kelly, working away, redefining their creativity engines.

Stay tuned and buckle up - AI is a steroid for creativity!

#AICreativity #CreativeInnovation #ArtRevolution #AIArt #FutureOfCreativity #DigitalArt #ExplorePossibilities #Innovation #CreativeTools #NextGenArt

https://jimcarroll.com/2024/10/daily-inspiration-ai-its-a-creativity-steroid/

Daily Inspiration: "AI? It’s a creativity steroid!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Smart creative types are quickly learning how to leverage the idea of AI art, and are drinking from a creative firehose. It is simply staggering to see how quickly things are evolving out there.

Take the case of Kelly Boesch. I have no idea who she is, or where she is located, but am mesmerized by her work after it crossed my path one day.

Check out this fascinating video, with all the scenes AND music generated by AI. (The scenes are from MidJourney, animated with RunwayML, and the music is from Suno.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ikd7C0smQ

Writes Kelly in her post related to her work:

I’m completely obsessed with AI. I create AI images and video. Hope you enjoy my stuff.

She goes on:

I made another one of these dancing music videos last night. It took me a while to get a song i liked and then i finally got this . The images were made with #Midjourney. Animated with @Runway. Music made with #Sunoai.

That will mostly be incomprehensible, but it implies that she is working hard at redefining her creative boundaries through a relentless exploration of what she can do with all the AI tools available to her.

Suffice it to say, I'm obsessed with her work. Here's another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3FYQs3HeBw

You can find her work on Youtube, Instagram, and other social networks -> https://www.instagram.com/kelly_boesch_ai_art/

This is but one person working away at exploring the boundaries of AI to explore their artistic imaginations. There are thousands if not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of folks like Kelly, working away, redefining their creativity engines.

Stay tuned and buckle up - AI is a steroid for creativity!

#AICreativity #CreativeInnovation #ArtRevolution #AIArt #FutureOfCreativity #DigitalArt #ExplorePossibilities #Innovation #CreativeTools #NextGenArt

https://jimcarroll.com/2024/10/daily-inspiration-ai-its-a-creativity-steroid/

Proof of work in an age of AI "content creation" is gonna be wild.

Like, here's a 2,000-hour GoPro point-of-view real-time video of me writing my novel in longhand. Each page was scanned into the blockchain each day. The originals were lodged in escrow & independently audited.

It cost me $200,000 to produce.

Why, yes, that $500 advance sounds excellent!

#ChatGPT #AI #FutureOfCreativity #Publishing #AmWriting #ProofOfWork