The Mouth I Didn’t Build
On effort, slop, and what these tools actually take from the work — from the artist who built a mouthless robot host and worked out, halfway through, why the choice mattered.
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AI and the creative world — film, art, music, gaming, and what people build with these tools. AI-native creators and the honest story of the craft.
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The Solo Developer Has Arrived. Nobody Is Coming After Them.
AI turned one-person game studios from fantasy into a business model. The junior developers who were supposed to become the next generation of experts have nowhere to start.
ZERO HORIZON: the co-op shooter living on a corner of our VPS
We built a co-op arena shooter on a 28-meter planet: about 160 KB of gzipped JavaScript, no game engine, endless waves, squads of four. It runs off the same server that serves this page. How it works, and why a studio that builds AI-native systems ships a game at all.
Hollywood Invested in OpenAI. Now It Can’t Distribute a Film About It.
Luca Guadagnino's $40M film about the 2023 OpenAI coup passed through Amazon, A24, Netflix, Focus, and Mubi — and nearly every studio that touched it has OpenAI money.
Telisha Jones Built an AI Gospel Voice. Suno’s Lawsuit May End It.
A Mississippi poet's AI singer hit #3 on gospel radio and became the first AI act on a Billboard radio chart. Now the platform behind the voice faces a fair-use ruling.
Tairell Isn’t Real. Neither Are We.
Dave Clark built a psychological thriller about an influencer the internet suspects of being AI. He built it with AI. The recursion is the point.
Marcel Dances Alone. The Crowd at Lincoln Center Lost Its Mind.
Robert Gaudette has never been to Paris, has no film training, and couldn't get a script greenlit in 25 years. His eight-minute AI film just won the Runway Grand Prix.
AI Made This Film Possible. AI Is Why No One Will Distribute It.
Ash Koosha's Dreams of Violets is the first AI feature at Tribeca: 74 minutes, $2,000, no crew. No distributor will touch it.
AI Bifurcates the Art Market. The Middle Is the Casualty.
AI compresses commodity art toward zero marginal cost while lifting both the ceiling of what's possible and the value of what's scarce. The casualties sit in the middle.