Thank you. Dear Leon and Charlie. In the story of the creation, God makes the world
and everything in it in Six Days. On the seventh day he rests. The day of rest is significant
because it suggests that the creation required a certain amount of effort on God's part that
some s of artistic struggle had taken place this struggle is the validating impulse that
gives God's world its intrinsic meaning the world becomes more than just an object full
of other objects rather it is imbued with the vital Spirit the pneuma of its creator chat GPT
rejects any notion of Creative struggle that our endeavors animate and nurture Our Lives giving
them depth and meaning it rejects that there is a collective essential and unconscious human Spirit
underpinning our existence connecting us all through our mutual striving chat GPT is fast
tracking the commodification of the human Spirit by mechanizing the imagination it
renders our participation in the Act of Creation as valueless and unnecessary that songwriter you
were talking to Leon who is using chat GPT to write his lyrics because it is faster and
easier is participating in the erosion of the world's soul and the spirit of humanity itself
and to put it politely should [ __ ] desist if he wants to continue calling himself a
[Applause] songwriter chat gpt's intent is to eliminate the process of creation and its
attendant challenges viewing it as nothing more than a time- wasting inconvenience that stands in
the way of the commodity itself why strive it contends why bother with the artistic process
and its accompanying trials why shouldn't we make it faster and easier when the god of the
Bible looked down upon what he had created he did so with a sense of accomplishment and saw
that it was good it was good because it required something of his own self and his struggle imbued
Creation with a moral imperative in short love Charlie even though the creative act
requires considerable effort in the end you will be contributing to the vast network of
love that supports human existence there are all sorts of Temptations in this world that will eat
away at your creative Spirit but none more fish than that boundless machine of artistic
demoralization chat GPT as humans we so often feel helpless in our own smallness yet still we
find the resilience to do and make beautiful things and this is where the meaning of life
resides nature reminds us of this constantly the world is often cast as a purely malignant place
but still the joy of creation exerts itself and as the sun rises upon the struggle of
the day the Great Crested grebe dances upon the Water it is our striving that becomes
the very essence of meaning this impulse this creative dance that is now being so cynically
undermined must be defended at all costs and just as we would fight any existential evil we should
fight it tooth and nail for we are fighting for the very soul of the world love [Music]
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Nick [Music]