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🦉 In the Absence of Creativity
With the new GPT-4o image generation capabilities, are we witnessing the democratization of art and culture, or its fundamental dissolution?
Coeus Collective
March 31, 2025
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Welcome back to the Collective. After last week’s essay about The Dopamine Economy, we certainly received some dopamine this week from all of the Studio Ghibli-inspired art on our timelines.
It’s us!
Nevertheless, the fun on the timeline led us to have some real questions about our collective path forward in the worlds of art and culture.
What does creativity become when all of the world’s art and culture is available at the tap of a button?
When everyone can generate endless variations of Ghibli landscapes, Wes Anderson interiors, or Renaissance portraits without any training or skill development, we must ask ourselves if we are witnessing the democratization of art and culture, or its fundamental dissolution.
This week, we're examining OpenAI's new GPT-4o image generation capabilities and asking whether we've crossed a threshold into a new creative paradigm, one where the past might become our permanent future.
Let’s get to it.
— By Antonio DiMeglio and Leon Li
