AI is trained on vast swaths of humanity’s cultural heritage, so it can often best be wielded by people who have a knowledge of that heritage. To get the AI to do unique things, you need to understand parts of the culture more deeply than everyone else using the same AI systems. So now, in many ways, humanities majors can produce some of the most interesting “code.” Writers are often the best at prompting AI for written material because they are skilled at describing the effects they want prose to create (“end on an ominous note,” “make the tone increasingly frantic”). They are good editors,
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