08/24/2026
I'll just say this about the whole ai situation: I don't hunt, but I like venison. (I was never good at metaphors lol) Yall can do whatever you want to do with it, but it's not for me. I've seen some pretty crazy cool stuff done with it, but the majority is s**t slop that just looks the same as everything else nowadays. Yall are looking for the cheap & easy way through life, and that may be fine for you. I'll be the grumpy old man in the woods and you guys can all join the collective empire.
On the flip side, if everything is connected to everything anyway, maybe this is just the natural progression and evolution of our species. Flip a coin. It could go either way. So I'll keep doin me, and you can keep doing you, and we will figure it out along the way.
The process of creating art is what I love about being an artist. I don't wish for an easier path, although some of the tools I use for my craft are just as technological and could be considered a form of artificial intelligence. So I am torn about the whole thing. And I am sure someone much more intelligent than me, with the time and money to do whatever they want to do, will figure it all out and I'll still be here confused about the whole damn thing.
But back to the flip side. We are all connected. We are all one. So I created ai. Or I am ai. Or ai created me. Or I am you and you are me and we are God living out life through every possible experience and perspective. "And if you were me then I'd be you, and I'd use your body to get to the top! You can't stop me no matter who you are." (Ace Ventura) Either way, let's all learn to laugh a little bit more and focus on love. Just my 2 cents.