Vencedores: Língua Estrangeira - Escalão B - Menção Honrosa

A game developer with chronic hand pain who still codes, designs characters, writes dialogue and produces every song for his games. A deaf musician who goes down in history as one of the greatest, creating intricate pieces and conducting orchestras. A self-taught artist born into slavery who first picked up a pencil and a scrap of cardboard to draw at the age of 85...

Humans have always found a way to create art. Disability and poverty were never limits, only the lack of creativity or effort was.

Yet, we've come to the dawn of an age in which people who are fully capable of learning a craft choose instead to steal from real artists and endanger the environment by using generative AI and to justify doing so on the limits they believe someone, who not them, could face.

It's a stupid excuse, but I can't help but wonder: what gives them pleasure in watching a prompt generate, when they do nothing but type it in?

Art is inherently living, and most types of it are also inherently human — and I say "most" because we call natural phenomena art as well —, because art comes to exist from a feeling, to evoke a feeling; whether we make it for ourselves or others, in the corners of a notebook or in its pages, in the walls of a building or on a canvas, it is art because we made it.

What I think is that these so-called "AI artists" wish to feel what it feels like to create, but in their chase for that feeling of power — of something akin to godhood in their small, small worlds — they fail to realize that we don't create art for a sense of superiority.

It was never about creating, it was never about control, not for us, real artists, anyway. It has always been about expression, about emotion, even for a toddler, who has no understanding of what these words mean.

I create because I'm a storyteller, I write because I have too many thoughts to keep in my head. I am burdened with the gift and curse of a loud, overwhelmingly creative mind. And a computer will never experience that — ChatGPT, Gemini, CoPilot and any others will never know what it means to daydream, to think and feel and share, out of need. Because they don't need it. They are merely strings of code.

And art... Art is culture, a culture of the world, that all of us share. Every story and every human experience, every myth that has thousands of interpretations and variations because they were originally told orally, every handprint left by cavemen on the walls of their caves, all of that and so much more is art and culture and history. AI could never replace that.

We can't let it.