Venice: The Antidote to AI

Studio Flo founder Olivia Ives-Flores reflects on Venetian artisans—glassworkers, a four-generation slipper family, and a mother-and-son shirtmaker—as a counterpoint to instant AI generation, arguing that craft's friction and accumulated judgment constitute authorship. She describes three ways she uses AI (transcribing handwritten notes, travel logistics, reducing administrative scaffolding) to preserve time for analog, human experience, and asks readers how they use AI to make room for real life.