Hacker News with Generative AI: Creativity

Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter (ContinueAndPersist.org)
Every day, thousands of Cease and Desist letters are issued, telling people to stop what they’re doing (Looking at you, David Chang). What a bummer!

Legal, Social Media, Humor, Creativity

1390 points by adnanaga 5 days ago | 221 comments

Are Algorithms Killing Creativity? (nytimes.com)
As you scroll through the internet, you’ve probably noticed the same problem Kirby Ferguson has: “Everything looks the same, sounds the same, is the same.”

Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Algorithms, Media

5 points by mikhael 7 days ago | 1 comments

Bodging GenServers Together (underjord.io)
What feels like forever ago but what was probably a year and a half I gave a talk about Lively LiveView with Membrane. Video is available for the curious. It was a stunt talk but also a talk about creativity and how Elixir let’s me plug things together and try things that feel magical. That feeling has never left me.

Elixir, Programming, Creativity, Web Development

11 points by lawik 11 days ago | 0 comments

AI isn't unleashing imaginations, it's outsourcing them (theguardian.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Technology, Society

25 points by rntn 17 days ago | 27 comments

Make It Yourself (makeityourself.org)
Across the world creative people are making high quality things of all kinds and sharing their work freely with all of humanity.

DIY, Creativity, Open Source

670 points by deivid 32 days ago | 94 comments

The Lines, They Are A-Changin' (bookforum.com)
YOU OPEN BOX 34, take the typescript from its folder. You can see right away that the song is pretty much finished. He’s got the first four verses locked in, save one lingering question about Ma. Should she be forty but say she’s twenty-four, or eighty claiming sixty-four? Or what if she’s twenty but wants you to think she’s sixty-four? Is that better? Nah.

Music, Songwriting, Creativity

6 points by tintinnabula 33 days ago | 1 comments

The Effects of Generative AI on Design Fixation and Divergent Thinking (dl.acm.org)
Generative AI systems have been heralded as tools for augmenting human creativity and inspiring divergent thinking, though with little empirical evidence for these claims.

Generative AI, Design, Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science

6 points by adrianhoward 39 days ago | 0 comments

How to Turn Your Mistakes into Masterpieces: The Art of Happy Accidents (2023) (medium.com)
Have you ever made a mistake while painting, drawing, or sculpting and felt like giving up? Have you ever wondered how some artists can turn their errors into creative opportunities? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this blog post is for you. In this post, I will share with you some examples of happy accidents in art history, and some tips on how to embrace your own mistakes and turn them into masterpieces.

Art, Creativity, Mistakes, Learning

3 points by squircle 46 days ago | 0 comments

How Many Visionary Artists Are Mentally Ill? (honest-broker.com)
It’s risky to be a visionary.

Art, Mental Health, Creativity

15 points by paulpauper 58 days ago | 13 comments

Role of Deliberate Practice in the Development of Creativity (2014) (lib.utexas.edu)

Creativity, Deliberate Practice, Research, Psychology, Education

190 points by JustinSkycak 66 days ago | 67 comments

Sorry Ted Chiang, humans aren't original either (theintrinsicperspective.com)
At the end of August acclaimed sci-fi author Ted Chiang published an essay “Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art” in The New Yorker.

Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction, Creativity

8 points by paulpauper 77 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Franzelio – Draw lines, make music, share your instrument (franzai.com)

Music, Creativity, Web Apps, User Interfaces

132 points by franze 78 days ago | 48 comments

Terence Tao: creative strategies, this aspect of LLM tools is still weak (mathstodon.xyz)

Mathematics, AI, Creativity

77 points by ColinWright 79 days ago | 7 comments

Coding Just for Fun (jairojair.com)
When was the last time you worked on something just for fun?

Programming, Hobbies, Creativity

8 points by jairojair 80 days ago | 2 comments

The Art of Finishing (bytedrum.com)