To avoid being replaced by AI: stop LARPing as a computer
Can an LLM "conjure up" and write a 500-page novel a la Dickens?
No.
Can an LLM "conjure up" and write a 1000 words article a la TMZ?
Yes.
Can an LLM "conjure up", compose, and execute a 2-hour oratorio a la Bach?
No.
Can an LLM "conjure up", compose, and execute a modern pop song?
Yes.
Why?
Because a journalist working for TMZ has to churn out an ungodly amount of articles.
Because pop songs are also churned out, albeit by a large team of people, at light speed.
Because, in order to meet the unrealistic demand they are faced with, artists and professionals try to automatize, structure, streamline, delegate. They need collaboration frameworks so every member of the team can connect their output to the others' inputs. Standard interfaces, standard tropes, standard formulations, both in creation and execution.
It is not hard to imagine that an ML system, faced with such a huge amount of structured content, will have much difficulty deducing the obvious patterns humans have adopted to make it possible. In fact, it's quite natural that the more we behave like machines, the more machines will have an easy time imitating us. But when we let go of the standards, of the expressions, of the tropes of a genre... that's when the AI has great trouble reaching us.
Mind you, this is not a new phenomenon. The musically-aware among you will know that what makes the greats like Bach or Mozart stand out is that, unlike their forgotten and unremarkable colleagues of the time, you can hear dozens of their works without feeling tired (that is, of course, if you like them), without spotting too many patterns that make you go: "Haven't I heard something like this 3 tracks ago?". If you enjoy any art or craft, search for the less known figures of the past and go binge at their work. Chances will be that, unless you stumble upon some hidden gems, once you've seen a bunch of stuff they made, you've seen it all.
Of course, those were different times. You would never "binge" a composer or a painter, unless you were their patreon in a court, so the staleness of their style or technique would matter less in the grand scheme of things. But this also means that the automatization of human expression does not only lie on the producers, but also in the consumers.
The public is also behaving like an endless, faceless pit; craving and ingesting an interminable stream of content upon content. Just like the artists are automatizing their output, we are automatizing our inputs. What do you think your automatically personalized and served social media feed is? It's a way for you to delegate all the choices about what to see to a machine, becoming a machine yourself. Producing becomes more mindless, consuming becomes more mindless.
And how about that word: consume. How degrading it is to consume a movie instead of watching it. How about enjoying something? Or experiencing?
Personally, if length wasn't a problem, I would say: "I went to the museum to see the latest installation, and so many paintings became a part of me yesterday! It was great.".