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Creative Coders against AI Colonialism

Published by Tim on Wednesday January 22, 2025

Last modified on February 26th, 2026 at 8:49

It is 2025, almost three years after the “AI shock”, when ChatGPT and Dalle2 suddenly captured humankind’s attention. From then on, it was clear that nothing would ever be the same again – especially for us Creatives.

Since the beginning of collective “AI awareness”, the big tech companies have been doing everything they can to make us humans believe that their products will make everything better in the future. And even more – that we will no longer need basic skills such as writing texts or programming because an AI will do it for us. In doing so, they are following a perfidious strategy: AI creates virtually unbreakable dependencies on these companies and their products. If organizations, individuals, school children and students around the world use AI products for even the most trivial tasks, they will unlearn how to think, how to make sense of the world and how to work – without AI. It’s like taking a plane to the bakery every day to buy a bread roll. The AI corporations want us to ditch the bicycle.

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