Generative “AI”: The Guitar Hero of CreativitySo, you’re a person who has decided to embark on a creative journey of self-expression — to make art, in other words. That’s because nothing about Guitar Hero taught you how to play guitar — what it taught you was how to use the guitar-shaped controller for the game. So, let’s come back to “AI,” which in this case is “generative ‘AI,'” the sort which powers most consumer-facing “AI” like ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude or Grok. Like Guitar Hero, generative “AI” has a vast database of artist’s work to draw from (but unlike Guitar Hero, whose makers licensed that work and compensated the musicians and songwriters, most generative “AI” training data is pirated and uncompensated). Like Guitar Hero, “AI” is fun to play with and the results, again, at least superficially, can be pretty cool.