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Featured · Opinion

AI isn’t the problem. Abdication is.

The tools aren’t going away. The question is whether anyone is still steering.

Every few months a new tool arrives and the same argument starts again: is this the end of creativity? It isn’t. But it might be the end of creative work made by people who stopped paying attention.

Generative tools are extraordinary amplifiers. They make it faster to explore, cheaper to test and possible to build worlds that would once have needed a crew of fifty. What they can’t do is decide what matters. They don’t have a point of view. They don’t know your audience, your history, or what you’re trying to change.

The danger isn’t the machine. It’s handing it the wheel — accepting the first output, the average answer, the thing that looks like everything else. That’s abdication, and audiences can feel it instantly.

Our approach is simple: use the machine, keep the author. Senior creative judgement at every step, with technology used to go further, not to go numb.