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\t\t\t December 10 2025, 9:47 am | BY Ricki Green | 2 Comments<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t \tAI accelerates, but humans navigate.\u00a0 That was the conclusion of an industry-first debate between a leading Australian creative and AI, held recently to discuss one of the most pressing questions facing today\u2019s marketing and creative industry: is human creativity replaceable?<\/p>\n

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More than 130 advertising, media, production and tech professionals representing 47 agencies, industry bodies, and clients, recently gathered at The Open Table event held in Melbourne, to watch Matt Lawson, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at ATime&Place take on Chat GPT in a live discussion moderated by Neville Doyle, Strategic Client Partner at Ideally.<\/p>\n

The discussion covered a range of topics that both challenged and acknowledged AI\u2019s powerful abilities and overall potential effect on the creative industry.\u00a0 ChatGPT demonstrated this live, generating answers with agility and depth in real time, with both Lawson and Doyle acknowledging its utility as a tool for speed and iteration.<\/p>\n

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But after debating ChatGPT on a number of issues, Lawson ultimately drew the critical distinction:\u00a0 \u201cAI creativity is derivative, and sure we\u2019ve had a prolific few centuries of human art and culture for it to regurgitate. But it is up to us to make the lateral leaps that create the wildly new. If not, we are heading towards a hellish blandscape. That\u2019s my real fear with AI. Sure, it\u2019s going to enslave us all one day, but I\u2019m more worried about the boring stories and art it will inflict on us before that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also expanded on the intangibles that define great creative work, saying: \u201cThe best ideas come from life, from relationships \u2013 and from what I tell, the life of AI consists of trawling through a near infinite amount of data. That\u2019s no life. AI will help us communicate in new ways, at wonderfully accelerated speeds, but it\u2019s up to us to make those ideas human and give them real meaning. It\u2019s up to us to lead the robots, or the future is going to be really boring. How horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a wide-ranging debate, the panel also talked through whether creative roles could be fully replaced by AI, with even ChatGPT ultimately agreeing that it wasn\u2019t totally possible.\u00a0 It noted that if a role can be fully replaced by AI, it\u2019s likely because that role had become repetitive and process-heavy, devoid of the creative judgment that makes work meaningful.<\/p>\n

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The Open Table\u2019s event organiser and founder of Blue Bateau Deanne Constantine said the potential effect on the next generation of creatives had been a big discussion point throughout the industry in 2025, and one the panel was keen to address during the debate.<\/p>\n

When asked by an audience member about how to ensure AI doesn\u2019t kill the learning journey for juniors, Constantine said ChatGPT offered a thoughtful response, saying \u201cit\u2019s all about using AI\u2019s power, but in a way that handles repetitive tasks while preserving space for young talent to experiment, make mistakes, and grow. It\u2019s clear from this that mentorship becomes even more critical in an AI-assisted world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire debate reinforced that an AI world is actually a positive one for the creative industry.\u00a0 Future roles will be shaped by how well creatives wield AI, with new hybrid positions likely to emerge including AI directors, prompt strategists, and story engineers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut ultimately the craft becomes more important, not less.\u00a0 So despite fears that AI might homogenise creative output, the night reaffirmed the opposite: that the human creative instinct, community, humour and shared experience still lead \u2013 and always will.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an address to the entire audience prior to the debate\u2019s conclusion, Sarah McGregor, National Executive Creative Director of AKQA, encapsulated what the debate had found:\u00a0\u201cFear has always walked beside creativity \u2013 but so has opportunity. Every new technology looks scary until someone makes something beautiful with it and if we stay curious instead of scared, we win.\u201d<\/p>\n

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