Stop Asking AI to Be Creative. That's Your Job.

I see people getting mad online. "This AI art is soulless." "ChatGPT wrote a boring poem." Of course it did. It's a calculator for words. You wouldn't yell at a toaster for not baking a cake. Here's what actually works. Use AI for the boring stuff. First drafts. Brainstorming bad ideas so you can find good ones. Summarizing research you don't want to read. Then you take that pile of mediocrity and you make it interesting. Add your weird opinion. Your inside joke. Your memory of rain on a Tuesday. That's where creativity lives. Not in the AI. In the space between what the machine gives you and what you choose to change. The best artists right now aren't prompt experts. They're editors with good taste. Be that person.