Ernest Hemingway learned to write by studying the paintings of Paul Cézanne. It was unconventional, but effective. What might we lose as AI optimizes our creativity?
We are at an inflection point. Our shock and astonishment when ChatGPT was released to the public two years ago has given way to a realization that it will only be a short time until artificial intelligence saturates our lives. Some of us are impatient, anticipating medical breakthroughs and increased productivity. Others are fearful—for our jobs, most urgently—but also for the
Here, a young Hemingway is exploring his craft, tentatively feeling his way towards a new style. Day after day, he gazes at Cézanne’s brushstrokes—the image of a mountain emerging from tile-like planes of color, an intricate whole composed of simple, and similar, parts. Day after day, he notices the same subjects of rock and trees. They are in many of the paintings, but always fresh. Like his sentences, this is art that seems to him true and honest and real.
It worked. Hemingway’s pared-down style profoundly shaped 20th-century prose and influenced every writer who followed him. But the way he got there wasn’t obvious or efficient.
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