Now is the time for authenticity

A lot of thought, words and development time has been spent perfecting digital presentation. And guess what? The results are actually pretty phenomenal. I saw a video yesterday for Sora 2 - Sam Altman’s (ChatGPT) latest project facilitating the production of AI generated feature films written, produced and starring .. YOU! Except it’s won’t be you. You won’t do anything. You won’t write, you won’t design, you won’t act, you won’t direct or produce. You’re just gonna upload a couple selfies, pick some out-of-the-box aesthetic, apply your ChatGPT script and wallah!.. out comes your movie that you didn’t make. Man, you can’t deny that it sure looks amazing! But it won’t feel like anything, because it’s not real.

Inspiration has been optimized out of the process and out of the product.

Imperfection is valuable. It’s what makes each of us unique and interesting. Putting make up over every blemish, airbrushing out all of the unrefined edges, fixing every grammatical error and poorly enunciated sentence removes the spirit and the life of everything. Your imperfect sketches are cool! Grok’s perfect renderings are pointless and lame. There’s no heartbeat there. Nothing to connect to and vibe along with. This isn’t the future we want because it doesn’t reflect anything about us or offer anything to us.

Except maybe AI art does offer us one thing. It offers us the opportunity to reconnect with our real selves, share our real, unfiltered work and progress and connect with each other on a real human level without worrying about whether or not we’re perfect enough. If we want that, well than we can just have AI do it for us and neither learn from nor impress anyone.

I prefer authenticity.