The title sounds like creative people are fighting robots – and the question is: who would win?
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Until the 20th century, humans were always the smartest beings. Only with the invention of the computer did everything gradually shift toward machines. Bit by bit, we’re handing over more and more of our humanity to the computer. Today, they’re all connected – through data centers, cloud platforms, and networks. Everything ends up on the internet.
With the rise of artificial intelligence technologies online, the paths have split dramatically, like two arrows pointing in opposite directions.
The “AI data kraken” now holds not only the knowledge of billions of people and all the stories ever written – it stores everything we’ve ever thought, said, and created.
Now it all comes down to a few key parameters:
Which artificial intelligence learns the fastest, functions best in terms of algorithms, and most importantly – how fast is it?
Artificial intelligence needs all of that in order to appear creative (to do what once was purely human).
Humans are picky – things need to look right.
A car has to look like a car. It can’t float, the tire material has to be correct, and the paint needs to look like it was captured by a real camera. No visual glitches. No distorted objects.
Of course, I know that artificial intelligence still produces a lot of nonsense.
From one car seat, it recently formed two hugging humans.
Sometimes it’s just funny – and it makes me laugh.
Like the current "ChatGPT Audio Monday".
I still remember sitting at my laptop after work back when I was at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, playing around with a localhost-based AI to generate funny images or logos. It felt like Tetris – compared to today, where you can generate Picasso-style images with just a prompt… using your aunt’s face :)
As a creative person, I often thought that artificial intelligence would eventually take over my work.
And maybe that was my mistake – I looked down on it, as if it were just a tool, nothing more.
Now I see AI-generated videos at eye level.
Still, I believe I have control over what I want to create – even though I hand over so much trust and decision-making to artificial intelligence without questioning it afterward.
Even though I want to say some good things about artificial intelligence in this article, I still think the same way – as if I still hold full control over everything I create.
But what if… what if things don’t turn out the way everyone expects?
Maybe that’s the real plot twist of artificial intelligence.
This article is meant for the future – maybe it doesn’t make sense right now.
The time will come when artificial intelligence becomes my second self.
It will know me better than I know myself – and then, in a matter of seconds, it will become who I am, what I represent, in every facet.
It’s almost poetic to say: it will control us more than we control it.
Will it become boring for us humans?
Will we just accept it, as if this is what creativity looks like now?
Will we become like the humans in WALL·E, that Pixar film where everyone floats around and no one does anything themselves?
Let me ask you this:
Isn’t an extra zero behind your project on Behance more important to you than the one with fewer ratings?
Sure, you get more views – and that number determines whether you're on the top ranking.
We’ve basically already been programmed to think this way.
We care about how many medals we have and feel good about every award.
In the same way, we’ll accept the rating of an image in the future – based on the opinions of artificial intelligence.
“Scan my page and give me feedback on possible mistakes or suggest improvements.”
With that prompt, you’ve handed over control of your opinion.
Now it only matters how artificial intelligence makes its decisions and that you end up accepting the suggestion anyway – even if it’s only after asking five times to finally get the answer you wanted to hear.
Hey – about 18 years ago, we had a Nokia in our hands and went to internet cafés to surf "on the go".
Funny, but it’s true. Back then, we humans were offline when we were out and about.
Everything is moving so fast. With artificial intelligence, even faster.
So fast that we already have to surrender as humans.
Soon it’ll be everywhere – like in a sci-fi movie.
Kind of sounds cozy and convenient, doesn’t it?
The more we look in that direction, the more unpredictable and undefinable it all becomes.
Are we really asking ChatGPT how humans will think in the year 2050?
LOL – sounds ridiculous, right?
But we are already asking these kinds of questions to artificial intelligence.
Let’s come back to the title:
I believe that, for now, humans are still ahead.
Will the medal ever flip? And if it does – when?
All thoughts were originally written in German. This version was translated with ChatGPT – to stay close to the tone and meaning of the original.You can find the original German post on LinkedIn LINK
*All visuals were created using MidJourney.
