“REAL” ART vs. AI

The other day I spoke with a friend of a similar vintage. We were talking about the tactile pleasures of making art: The heft of a bass guitar, the clean lines of a fountain pen. And he shared a quote he fuzzily attributed to Marshall McLuhan:

“When a new media emerges, an old media reappears.”

He went on: “You see this with digital music and streaming and how it coincided with the reemergence of vinyl records. People want an analog experience to complement the digital one being forced upon us. So I think that the push by those who have the most to gain from AI adoption into the creative sphere (our current broligarchy) will cause people to seek out very human art. Singer-songwriters with a guitar at a coffee shop, the resurgence of music by analog gear, etc.”