‘Hacks’ writer and producer Jen Statsky says if you use AI in your creative work you’re a hack.
Posted by Relevant-Peach3997
‘Hacks’ writer and producer Jen Statsky says if you use AI in your creative work you’re a hack.
Posted by Relevant-Peach3997
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Duh
And shes right
Honestly. Writing isn’t that fucking hard. Sure, as a literal writing prof and professional writer/editor, I’m biased, but come on; if people spent half as much time just trying to write as they did trying to get around doing any writing, we’d all be better off. Stop outsourcing your critical thought processing for the sake of streamlining your existence.
Anyway, I started Hacks the other day and I’m really enjoying it so far!
Their second-latest episode (s5e6: QuikScribbl) delves into the AI vs. art discussion really well. And their latest episode is the funniest of the series thus far, imo. So glad Hacks has been given the opportunity to end on its own terms. Quality comedy writing!
Yes, of course.
Watch S5E6 of Hacks where they do a great job on discussing this.
LOVE the point she’s making that a lot of these tech bros completely miss; creativity is a process. It shouldn’t be perfect and it shouldn’t come easy.
Only incurious losers out source their thinking to gen AI. It’s so pathetic.
No notes. Thankfully, us artists will have a lifetime of satisfaction knowing we put our souls into our art while these tech douches will constantly feel their inadequacies until they pick up a pencil themselves or for the rest of their lives.
AGREED!
And here’s my blog post that promises no AI slop ever:
[https://twoheartswellness.com/2026/05/01/my-promise-to-you-dear-reader-no-ai-slop-here/](https://twoheartswellness.com/2026/05/01/my-promise-to-you-dear-reader-no-ai-slop-here/)
Next up? I have a website dedicated to Ehlers Danlos syndrome (one of my super-specialty areas) and in two weeks, I’ll have a blog post there that discusses how AI is wreaking havoc in chronic illness online spaces.
AI is shit.
There are some narcissistic and shallow people who really like their own ideas, they have AN IDEA which they think is soooo original (not at all) but they don’t want and cannot write. I can see people like that using AI.
But if you didn’t bother to write it, I don’t want to read it. At all. If I go mad and decide i wanna read AI book I’d put my own ideas into ai machine and ask to create a story.
Writers using AI are not writers.
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Let me guess. You not only have a cellphone, you have a smartphone, and you max out your data by the 18th every month don’t you? Also if you watch too much TV it’ll melt your brain. Being a luddite have never and will never be the right answer. You can pretend for as long as you want but when you’re still on a horse, eventually you’ll get run over by a car and all those social-points you were collecting won’t magically teach you how to drive or protect the horse.
I wish people would differentiate between generative AI and LLMs vs AI tools that reduce the load of the non-creative work that has to happen for creative work to happen.
Like, there’s an AI tool for organizing music samples. That doesn’t take away anything from the creative process, it just makes it easier for artists to find the tools they want to use. There are a lot of *good* uses of AI like this.
But I can’t blame people for not knowing about those, because the good/ethical AI tools are lost in the mass of every program and company pushing generative and LLM AI.
If you need AI to create art then perhaps youre just a shit artist.
“If you remove all the friction from life there’s nothing” is not the flex she thinks it is lol. I for one do not want friction. She’s welcome to stop using it but she can’t speak for all humans about how grist is necessary
>in your creative work
Hate to see us already sliding down the slipper slope.
Correct
