The question is why do we make things like we do?

We all read discussions where somebody desperately writes that people use too much AI. We always read how students and writers use AI for their books. And then we forget to ask: “Why do they make that thin”? The answer is this: if you are a writer or somebody who does creative work, well, creativity is a hard thing if you must earn money from creative work. The requirement is that a person makes texts and draws without mistakes. And follows orders. Most people who work as creative workers are not painters or novelists. They work in the commercial business by making quite boring commercials. They don’t paint things like Mona-Lisa paintings. 

That means people might think that AI lets them go easily from the problem. If they give a job to an AI that works for them. In places like colleges and universities, many students are very young. And if one of them starts using the AI, that person pulls everybody else into that thing. The main component in working life is effectiveness. If you make too many mistakes, you are fired. If you write too few texts or take too few pictures, that means that you are not an effective worker. AI is a tool that can give solutions for that thing. It offers tools that make everybody effective. 

When we use AI we must ask from the mirror, do we use that tool because of our free will? Or, do we need to use that tool, because that makes us effective? The thing is this. Private companies have only one purpose. They must bring money to their owners. That means those companies or their leaders must maximize their profits. And that is the key element for the AI use. The AI is a tool that maximizes the effectiveness in working life. It makes everybody creative and productive. That means everybody can make nice images and other kinds of things by using AI. 

And then we can see one thing that we might be afraid of. That AI removes drawers and some coders from the offices. That means AI destroys creativity. Creative workers are individual actors from the point of view of a company. That thing means that those individual actors are hard to replace.

If some work depends on the person’s individual skills. That can cause problems in the workplace. Companies need productive and creative workers. But at the same time, the company wants to control those things. 

AI is the tool that instrumentalizes creativity. The company that owns the AI license can control the tool that a person uses for creative work. When a company takes the tool from the worker’s hand, that means the worker cannot do that work anymore. All individual workers who have skills that are hard to replace involve risk. That risk is that the person starts to rebel. If a person is hard to replace that means companies must sometimes show more tolerance than with other workers. And that is always a problem.