World AI Film Festival · São Paulo · 600 founding members
Both
Hands
Full.
Hold critique in one hand. Hold curiosity in the other. Keep walking.
The thesis
BOTH /
AND
AI is trained on stolen work without consent. AND I'm more creative, more productive, and more powerful than I've ever been in my whole life.
Both statements are true.
Not contradiction. Complexity. The interesting choice is always the third option — the one that's harder to hold.
Three paths
Most conversations force you to pick a side.
- 1
Embrace uncritically
Become a booster. Ignore the harms. Feel clean about your enthusiasm.
Look back in ten years and realize you were complicit.
- 2
Resist completely
Become a doomer. Maintain ideological purity. Lose influence.
Look back in ten years and realize you had no voice.
- 3
Walk forward — both hands full
Hold critique AND curiosity. Engage with problems intact. Stay messy. Stay effective.
Uncomfortable but influential.
circle this one
What's in here.
make things. not one perfect film — many experiments.
I'm here.
Both hands full.
You coming?
— from the closing of the talk