gift economy
Help, My Friend Got Me a Dumb AI-Generated Present
"An artist friend of mine got me an AI-generated painting as a gift. I can see she tried to personalize the concept, and it's nicely framed, but part of me still feels a little cheated. For timely guidance on encounters with technology, open a support ticket via email; or register and post a comment below. There's something implicitly paradoxical about feeling "cheated" by a present. A gift is, by definition, something that comes into your possession at no cost or effort, an object that exists outside the economic concepts of debt and fair exchange.