Two groups of friends made the same AI wedding video

The End of Creativity

At a wedding, the bride's friends and the groom's friends each made an AI-generated tribute video. Both videos ended up nearly identical—same voiceover cadence, same drone shots of beaches and forests, same National Geographic-style narration. The crowd loved the coincidence. The author argues everyday creativity is regressing to a mean, but doesn't settle on whether the driver is fear of making something bad or just taking the easy path.

Why it matters: A personal essay with a concrete story, sharp observation, and no forced conclusion. The wedding-video coincidence is a strong hook that hits all three HKR axes. Deduction: it's an opinion piece with no data or proposed fix—it stops at describing the phenomenon. 72 lands right...