AI Isn’t Stealing Your Creativity (It’s Revealing You Never Had Any)

If AI can do what you do, you were never creating. You were executing.

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Every creative I know is having the same crisis.

They open ChatGPT. Type in a prompt. Thirty seconds later, it spits out something that took them three hours last week.

And the worst part isn’t that AI can do their job.

It’s that they can’t explain why their version is better.

Artists are panicking. Writers are protesting. Designers are furious. The narrative is everywhere: AI is stealing our creativity, destroying our craft, making us obsolete.

But here’s what’s actually happening.

AI isn’t stealing anything. It’s holding up a mirror. And most people don’t like what they see.

Because if a machine can replicate what you do in 30 seconds, maybe what you were doing wasn’t as creative as you thought. Maybe you were following a process you absorbed from everyone else. You just didn’t realize it until something could do it faster.

This isn’t an attack. I spent two years in that exact position before I figured this out. But if you’re feeling defensive right now, that reaction is worth examining.