WIRED’s advice columnist on the true purpose of gift giving.
—No Returns Dear No Returns, There’s something implicitly paradoxical about feeling “cheated” by a present. A gift is, by definition, something that comes into your possession at no cost or effort, an object that exists outside the economic concepts of debt and fair exchange. But the fact that these offerings do often leave us feeling shortchanged suggests that there is a shadowy economics of gift giving, one whose rules are tacit and loosely defined.
The gift of these encounters leaves the recipient inspired to create something herself, and so the generative energy continues to pass from one person to another. You alluded to the generic quality of the AI art you were given, despite your friend’s well-meaning attempts to personalize it.
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