AI and The Creativity Divide

Vox Day is an endless source of crucial information.

Here he links to an article about the influence AI will have on work and jobs.

Good news and Bad news.

Good news for those who exert their minds and “create”; AI will be a tool.

Sad news for the (lazier?) crowds of trend followers; AI will replace them.

Here is the article; the yellowing is my own editorializing.

The Band contemplates the ways in which AI will continue to separate the sheep from the goats in creating a creativity divide.

The notion users really need to know what they’re doing holds the mirror to useless modern busy workers. If you can be replaced by a flawed talking search engine, what was your true value added?

But it also holds a mirror of me, the user. Note how my answer to it up above used the phrase “outsourcing the whole chain of thought.” Shortly after, DeepSeek describes the…

Passivity Trap: Why struggle to write, code, or analyze when AI can do a “good enough” job? The entire chain of thought can be outsourced.

This is one example. It commonly asks me questions, adopts my own wording, and gives it back to me. This makes it seem more agreeable and complementary. It’s excellent for augmented intelligence. As it adapts to your patterns, it is more able to anticipate your needs. But it makes NPCs feel smart. Not because they are. Because it’s a mirror on every level.

As for the elite/mass cognitive split that I think is likely, DeepSeek says it’s already happening with AI use.

It explained what it calls a Creativity Divide between people who use AI for brainstorming vs. those who treat it as a final authority. It’s connected to critical thinking and that circles back to NPC.

“Elite” thinking is what we’ve been discussing in these chats.

RI. Real Intelligence. Users who understand and think well enough to run the AI. Catching errors, pushing fallacies, and designing the right queries and prompts. DeepSeek summed it up like this while throwing some shade at the competition.

Elites cross-examine AI outputs; masses accept them as gospel (see: ChatGPT-generated misinformation spreading uncritically).

And the economic impact is just as harshly divided. High-functioning workers will use AI in the right places to augment their productivity. Low-functioning workers will get replaced.

It’s not surprising. This split is always with us. It’s part of the human condition. Readers and non-readers. Learners and CLI. AI is a mirror. The divided use patterns with it reflect the FTS division with pretty much everything. What it does is sharpen it.

We’re about to hit this in a big way in the music industry.

While most of the outspoken musicians are posturing angrily and preaching about the AI apocalypse, the smarter ones are quietly mastering the AI tools and using them to produce better results.

This creativity divide is going to become increasingly obvious as soon as the middle of next year.

I asked DEEPSEEK about smart, high IQ, people and AI.

CLI – CLI: Command Line Interface (The “Work” Tool) (DeepSeek has a LONG answer)

FTS – Financial Transaction Services (Do go ask DeepSeek for its long explanation)

BTW- AI and the near future

IQ – China has around approximately 5,415,000 people with and IQ of 140 or MORE.

STEM – China graduates well over 2 million students in STEM fields at the bachelor’s level EVERY year.

AI – China’s AI policy is a holistic national strategy that treats AI as the key to future economic dominance, social stability, and geopolitical power. It leverages the country’s scale, data, and state-capitalist model to pursue a coordinated effort across industry, government, and the military. While it faces challenges, particularly in semiconductor independence and attracting top global talent, its systematic and determined approach makes it a primary competitor to the United States in shaping the global AI landscape.

IQ – USA: Approximately 4.3 million people in the United States have an IQ of 140 or higher.

The Western world (non-US Anglo-sphere, Europe, Swiss); based on this definition and statistical model, approximately 3.55 million people in the Western World have an IQ of 140 or more.

STEM degrees USA: Graduates roughly 550,000 STEM students at the bachelor’s level annually.

Western World : Graduates roughly 1.4 – 1.6 million STEM students at the bachelor’s level annually.

AI – Western policy landscape is a multi-layered effort to harness the economic and social benefits of AI while building guardrails to protect its citizens’ rights and democracies. The transatlantic partnership between the U.S. and the EU is crucial in this endeavor, as they collectively seek to offer an alternative to the state-centric AI model championed by China.

Note: I only compared China, the preeminent industrial power, to the previous eminences; if I were to include Russia, the Global South…

“Ask (DeepSeek) and an answer will be given to you!”