· 14 min
Three and a Half Seconds
I built two speech tools for an audience of one. What they taught me was where the line sits between a tool you invoke and a tool you use.
- Agents
- AI practice
- Generative media
- Prompting
InsightsTagged
Generative media
Everything tagged generative media — case studies, briefings and insights together, because the subject cuts across all three.
Eight pieces carry this tag.
· 5 min
Everyone Talks, the Machine Listens
What happens when the interface disappears and the machine begins to think with us.
- Accessibility
- Generative media
- Multimodal AI
· 7 min
The Voice Is the Person: What Happens When AI Speaks for Us
Voices drawn from archives rather than lungs — and what that does to trust.
- Accessibility
- Generative media
- Likeness rights
- Voice cloning
· 5 min
Machines That Sing: Music in the Age of AI
Machines now sing without breath and without apprenticeship, inheriting not from teachers but from archives.
- Apprenticeship
- Generative media
- Voice cloning
· 6 min
The Vanishing Apprenticeship
Film will survive AI. The path that led people into it may not.
- Apprenticeship
- Generative media
- Labor
- Likeness rights
· 6 min
Synthetic Cinema: When AI Makes Movies
Cinema staged inside the machine rather than in front of it.
- Diffusion models
- EU AI Act
- Generative media
- Provenance
· 5 min
Democratization or Displacement? The Double Edge of AI Art
When a sentence can conjure a picture, the question stops being whether it’s possible and becomes whether it still means anything.
- Diffusion models
- Generative media
- Likeness rights
- Provenance
Briefing· 7 min
From Pixels to Possibility: The Origins of Generative Media
Gutenberg’s press looked ordinary too. The case for calling this a printing-press moment, and the case against.
- Diffusion models
- Drug discovery
- Generative media
- LLMs
- Multimodal AI
- Provenance
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Briefing
The Art of Prompting as Dialogue
Prompting stops being command and becomes conversation — one human mind and one statistical one.
Briefing
The Machines We Built to Act for Us
The customer service agent didn’t malfunction. That’s the part worth sitting with.
A Vaccine, a Laptop, and a Dog Named Rosie
A rescue dog, an aggressive cancer, and a man who refused the first closed door. AI didn’t replace the expertise — it got him to it.
Briefing
How Chatbots Actually Write (Without the Math)
Autocomplete that can look back, decide what mattered, and keep going for paragraphs.