Curation as Creation

“Here’s what we don’t talk about enough: curation is a creative act. Every museum curator, every anthology editor, every person who says ‘this matters and that doesn’t’ is making a generative choice. When I work with an AI, I’m curating possibility. The machine offers, I select. I arrange. I decide what the reader sees and in what order and at what rhythm. That’s not passive consumption. That’s authorship of a different kind, and it’s legitimate. The editor’s eye, the editor’s judgment, the editor’s taste: these are not afterthoughts. They’re the thing itself.”

Mike