We are giving up - AI, culture and the devaluation of knowledge work

Journalism, literature, images, films, music: the internet has become the central place for our social communication. The food for our brains and hearts comes from the WLAN. Who knows how it gets there, the "content"? How it is created - and by whom?
Cultural work has a hard time in the digital age, especially for those who do it. Generative AI is exacerbating the crisis, acting like an accelerant on a blazing fire.
Those working creatively in culture and the media are under pressure. Content is under pressure along with them. But if the influx of new, innovative and diverse content threatens to dry up, then the state, society and the economy must prepare for an intellectual drought. This raises the not insignificant question of how the new will actually enter the world in future.
In his essay, Matthias Hornschuh pleads for the development of human creativity and the protection of creative people.

Matthias Hornschuh is a composer, publicist, university lecturer, activist with many mandates - and a member of the Art & Science Advisory Board of Raum13. We are delighted that he will be celebrating his Cologne book premiere with us at the Deutz Zentralwerk der Schönen Künste.