Is it truly fitting for human nature to look at the sameness of every design, to consume the endless repetition of what is being produced? I am just not so sure about that anymore. Everything feels so artificial now. Everything feels exactly the same. Throughout human history, humanity has always understood the distinction of hard work. We have known the value of manual labor.

Let me tell you what it is we are witnessing. What we are witnessing is devaluation. Even when we look at the books we read, we have started to approach them with a sense of doubt. In fact, in the near future, we will likely start checking the publication dates of books before we buy them: Was it written before artificial intelligence, or after? Was it actually written, or was it generated? Even with this very article, you might wonder, was this written by AI, or are these my genuine thoughts?

I do not believe that writing a good prompt equates to doing good work. Writing a good prompt is just writing a good prompt; it simply means you know how to use a tool well. What adds true value to a product is the human being behind it. It is their story, their journey, their experiences. Otherwise, taking a helicopter to the summit of Mount Everest would be more popular, wouldn’t it?

Have you noticed that people are starting to lose their passions? Even for myself, spending hours on a passion, however silly it might be, striving to learn it and diving deep into it, feels like it is becoming a thing of the past. It seems like, “There are so many tools out there now, you have no excuse left not to produce,” right? It makes you feel like if you still aren’t creating after being given all these opportunities, the problem must be you.

But my question is this: Is there even any reason left to produce? When the value we assign has lost its meaning, amidst all this visual and auditory pollution, what is the point of tossing yet another meaningless, worthless crumb into the crowd?

So, how do we walk this tightrope? Meaning, significance, value, story, journey, personality. These are the things we must never let slip from our minds. From now on, when we look at the world, we need to add a few more filters to our eyes.

Here is what we must do when consuming: Just as we check the ingredients of our food before we eat it, I believe we now need to examine the “raw materials” of everything we watch, read, and listen to, everything we consume, and consume it with that same awareness.

And as for producing, it is like this: the most beautiful, the most realistic, or the most flawless creation is no longer the best creation. The best creation will be the one that isn’t generated; the one that is real, and the one that is flawed.

In short, I am searching for meaning, the value, the story, the experience and the journey. I am looking for the human.