Author argues humans drive AI negative space creativity

The author argues that true creativity stems from recognizing and filling 'negative space'—the unmapped gaps and unspoken human truths that do not yet exist in data or prior art. While AI models excel at recombining existing patterns in positive space through matrix multiplication, they lack the taste, lived experience, and insight required to notice what is missing. Consequently, true innovation relies on human agents who can stand in empty space and put something entirely new into it. Open article →