Made with AI Is the New Made in China
Twenty years ago, “Made in China” meant cheap, disposable, unsustainable, and low quality. Today, China is actively changing that perception, but the label still lingers in people’s minds.
The same thing could happen with AI.
A lack of knowledge about how to use it, and a lack of judgment about what is good or bad, will quickly turn “Made with AI” into a stigma as well.
AI produces mountains of garbage—but so do humans. And AI is, in many ways, learning from us.
Nobody asks whether a movie was edited with Premiere, whether a book was written in Word, or whether a logo was designed in Illustrator. The tool disappears. The work remains.
This says more about people than it does about the technology. Because AI doesn’t replace taste. It exposes the lack of it.
Eager to know—will the label stay?
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How to use AI without losing your soul
AI becomes dangerous the moment it becomes your first step instead of your second. If you start with AI, you skip your brain—the one trained to think, struggle, and solve. And that’s the part that actually makes something yours. Because AI is trained on everything, it drifts toward the average. Feed it noise, and it gives you polished bullshit back.
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